When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
Tom WaitsRead
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
Interpretation
Embracing the chaos of life can be best done with protection and preparation.
This quote by Tom Waits suggests that during difficult or tumultuous times (symbolized by 'rough weather' and 'whiskey in the rain'), one should safeguard what is precious to them ('your savior') using something protective ('cellophane'). It speaks to the necessity of finding ways to endure hardships while still cherishing what matters most in our lives.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a motivational speech about resilience in tough times.
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
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.
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home Iβd rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe and throw my dreams out in the street and the rain make βem grow
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.
They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.
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