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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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Tom Waits
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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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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Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.
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I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'
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You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.
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There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.
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I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.
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I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
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Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
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I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.
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I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms
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You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.
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Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
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Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
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