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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.
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I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.
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I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.
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When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.
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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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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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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.
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The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone
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If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
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She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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You're innocent when you dream.
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