Author: Tom Waits

Quotes

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

- Tom Waits

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

- Tom Waits

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

- Tom Waits

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

- Tom Waits

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

- Tom Waits

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

- Tom Waits

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