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I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

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Tom Waits
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
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But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.
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Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.
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I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
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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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I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
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Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
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I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
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There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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