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 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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Hope
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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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Our government shouldnt tell us where to travel and where not to travel. – Jeff Flake

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Travel, of course, narrows the mind. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that. – Ivan Lendl

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The last couple relationships I had were long distance. Its not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately. – Holly Madison

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

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