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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
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.
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I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.
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Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.
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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
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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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I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.
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It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.
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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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Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.
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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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The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business
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