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What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
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California
Thomas Alan Waits
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