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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: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair
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The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
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I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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Disneyland is Vegas for children.
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using parking meters as walking sticks.
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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’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.
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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 sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch
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Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.
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God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!
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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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