Thursday, March 13, 2014

Tom Waits

Quotes from a Tom Waits interview...

1. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

2. We are monkeys with money and guns.

3. Real beauty: oil stains left by cars in a parking lot.

4. False teeth in pawnshop windows

5. A homeless man with an operatic voice singing the word "bacteria" from an empty dumpster in Chinatown

6. It was a train station of music with all the sounds milling around...

7. "Fire is the sun unwinding itself from the wood." - Bucky Fuller

8. A man you'd want in the boat with you at the end of the world

9. Headlights hit by a shotgun

10. Bacon frying

11. Piano lessons coming from an apartment window

12. He is a giant among men

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