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Disneyland is Vegas for children.

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
Disneyland
Vegas
Children

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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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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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I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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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I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
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If you walk with Jesus, he's gonna save your soul. You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole. He's got the fire and the fury at his command.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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The Music was like Electric Sugar
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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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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
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There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.
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