Tom Waits ✓

(1949) musician United States

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[Wikidata] American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1949)... | [Wikipedia] Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underbelly and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genr

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• I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s,… Century
• I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Concerned
• Words are music, really. Funny
• Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning. Actual
• I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor." Acting
• With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique. Families
• You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you. From
• The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together. Blues
• My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't believe it. She… All
• People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so… Anyone
• I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air… Air
• 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… Allowed
• I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around. Chase
• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. Beer
• Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk. Alcohol
• George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him. Brought
• I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess. Amateur
• I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out. Better
• For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them… Apart
• I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. Beer
• 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… All
• 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… Across
• 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… Dream
• Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. Certain
• The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. Big

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