Quote by Tom Waits
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really ha

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

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Their memorys like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you cant remember Tell the things you cant forget that History puts a saint in every dream. – Tom Waits

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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 its hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. – Tom Waits

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

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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. – Jan Morris

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. – Ernest Hemingway

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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. – Al Boliska

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I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but Ive been lucky to have visited most of them before, because Ive done a tremendous amount of travel. – Phil Keoghan

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