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For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school you learn by listening to tunes.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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