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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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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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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car
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You hope people are going to be listening to you after youre gone. And they like you better after youre gone. – Tom Waits

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A wise traveler never despises his own country. – William Hazlitt

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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. – Charlize Theron

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I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and Ive grown as a person so much. – Ricky Williams

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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. – Bernard Cornwell

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