Tom Waits Quotes

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

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LifeMusicMomentOceanYouAdjust

I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

Jim James

HealthFeelYearsCostPaidHeavy

I don't think anybody really super-consciously tries to develop a style to play.

John Abercrombie

StyleThinkPlayDevelopAnybody

I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.

Maurice Druon

LifeGratitudePeopleWorldThink

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

Stewart Udall

WildernessAmericanParkSystemIdea

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

Russell Tovey

LifeLoveCompromiseWantPersonal

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Marvin Gaye

LoveHateWarConquerAnswerOnly

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

Joseph Fiennes

LifeWorkLoveBehaviorBackHuman

A lot of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s had all these colors and were so brightly lit. But John Landis had this dark style, like a Scorsese film.

Jay Chandrasekhar

StyleColorsDarkLitFilmLike

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Jon Krakauer

StartBookGoingIdeaNo IdeaAny

I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there - accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is - or you lose the willpower and the drive.

Daya

LifeYourselfSongDriveThinkLose

How many people can say they had Anna Wintour on a record? Not even an album, just a mixtape? It's audacious, disrespectful, and I feel like it's a little bit raw, and that's what Dirty Money is.

Dawn Richard

MoneyPeopleFeelDirtySayLittle

Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

Colleen Hanabusa

EducationSchoolAmericanDriving

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