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Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor. His distinctive voice was described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding as though "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car". Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona with his trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music.

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Drinking, Music, Piano

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

Back, Back Again, Forks, Pitch, Roaring

I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch

Blood, Bought, Half, Quart, Scotch, Sold

In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.

Black, Done, Think, Thinking

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.

Like You, Party, Public, See, Showing, Showing Up

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

Asshole, Guy, Rats, Sell, Wedding, Wedding Ring

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

Back, Gaining, Look, Looks, Might

It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

Battered, Flames, Night, Someplace, Stained, Travel

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

Ivar, Night, Saturday, Theatre, Tickets

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.

Kill, Kill Me, Kiss, Kiss Me, Kissing, See

I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.

Chase, People, Tabloids

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

Writing, Bees, Instruments, Melody, Choreography

When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.

Blow, Bucks, New York, Shoes, Top, Twenty

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

Anatomy, Book, Guess, Like, Physicians

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

Born, Meter, Needing, Running, Squares, Yellow

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust. '

Commercials, Dust, Song, Songs, Thinking

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

Air, Interesting, Song, Things

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 with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.

Air, Bee, Closest, Drawing, Freer, Writing

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Afraid, Guy, Guys, Jukebox, Live, Might

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

Average, Change, Lifetime, Light, Two

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