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

Other quotes by 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 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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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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Imagination
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But then Im 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

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Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. – Ella Maillart

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People think Im crazy because I travel too much, but I havent been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and Ive tried to take care of it. – Lee Hazlewood

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I have several dogs and several cats who arent really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. Id like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much. – Eric Stoltz

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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. – Maureen OHara

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Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. – Stephen Hawking

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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. – Jeremy Taylor

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