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Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people I thought you said this. Poetry comes out of that too.

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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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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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.
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I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.
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I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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If you walk with Jesus, he's gonna save your soul. You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole. He's got the fire and the fury at his command.
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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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If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
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