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Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.

~Tom Waits

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I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

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Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.

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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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People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

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I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.

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Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 7th, 1949

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