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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
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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I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.
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I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
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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 don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.
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Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.
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Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.
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Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people I thought you said this. Poetry comes out of that too.
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Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.
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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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I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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