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All that you've loved is all you own
Tom Waits
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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
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Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
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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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There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.
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Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.
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The Music was like Electric Sugar
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Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
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Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
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I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.
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The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.
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Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town
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using parking meters as walking sticks.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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