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I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

~Tom Waits

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I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.

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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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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 and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

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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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Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

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If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

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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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Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 7th, 1949

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