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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Thomas Alan Waits
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Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair
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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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When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.
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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 think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
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All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.
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God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!
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