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The Universe is making music all the time.

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.
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and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
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Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.
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There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
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She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.
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In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.
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It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
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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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You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.
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The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.
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If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
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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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She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.
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