Quote by Tom Waits
But then Im one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the te

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

Other quotes by Tom Waits

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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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. – Tom Waits

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cool
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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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Travel
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Other Quotes from
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Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Death

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. – Percival Arland Ussher

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Death

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. – Kevin Spacey

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Death

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. – Elbert Hubbard

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Death

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

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Let every man be true and every god a liar. – Samuel Butler

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There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. – Max Eastman

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If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing. – John Hope

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