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Tom Waits
Age: 75
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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Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)
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I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.
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The Music was like Electric Sugar
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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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Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest - Tom Waits Foreign Affairs
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I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
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I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
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I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.
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and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
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There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you know about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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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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Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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