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The Universe is making music all the time.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.
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Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
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Misery is the River of the World
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Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.
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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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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.
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when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
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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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I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
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The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
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I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
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but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.
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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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