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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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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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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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didnt know the poems would travel. I didnt go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. – June Jordan

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I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes. – Rob Mariano

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I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel. – Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. – Dan Lipinski

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