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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Thomas Alan Waits
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I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.
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The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it they'll just make another one.
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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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and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
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...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.
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I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.
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I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.
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You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.
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He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.
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Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.
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Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.
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Disneyland is Vegas for children.
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George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
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I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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 always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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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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The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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