Tom Waits

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.Tom Waits

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.Tom Waits

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.Tom Waits

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.Tom Waits

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.Tom Waits

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.Tom Waits

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.Tom Waits

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.Tom Waits

Tom Waits is a famous American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor, who was born on December 7, 1949. As a person born on this date, Tom Waits is listed in our database as the 6th most popular celebrity for the day (December 7) and the 12th most popular for the year (1949).

People born on December 7 fall under the Zodiac sign of Sagittarius, the Archer. Tom Waits is the 239th most popular Sagittarius.

Aside from information specific to Tom Waits' birthday, Tom Waits is the 1979th most famous American and ranks 2nd in famous people born in Pomona, California, U.S.

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