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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.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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