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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
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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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Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.
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I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
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and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
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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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You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.
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I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.
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I don't really like listening to the radio so much.
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If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'
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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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All that you've loved is all you own
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For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school you learn by listening to tunes.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.
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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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