American - Musician | December 7, 1949 -
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.
Tom Waits
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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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Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
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George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
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Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.
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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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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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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