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Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
— Tom Waits
Tags: only, like, travel, time

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I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.
— Tom Waits
Tags: things, want, down, upside-down, always
For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
— Tom Waits
Tags: understand, go, school, you
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 it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
— Tom Waits
Tags: feel, car, you, love
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
— Tom Waits
Tags: remember, memory, you, history
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
— Tom Waits
Tags: just, think, weather, song
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