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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
Tom Waits
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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Thomas Alan Waits
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You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.
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That for me is more important than anything when you're in the studio - to have somebody you can trust and who knows you, knows who you are and doesn't let you get away with anything.
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I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
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If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.
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Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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I don't really like listening to the radio so much.
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I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
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