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God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

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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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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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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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I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
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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'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.
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I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.
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The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
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