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"Music itself is the closest he gets to time travel. He gestures toward the jukebox: "The studio is torn down, all the people who played on it are dead, the instruments have been sold off. But you are listening to a moment that happened in time 60 years ago and you are hearing it just as sharp as when it was made. That remains an amazing thing to me."

"Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting," he says. "The idea that it will just be a sort of vapour that you listen to out of speakers the size of a dime alarms me. It's like injecting yourself. Or eating alone."

Tim Adams / The Guardian Interview

Tom Waits at the Limbo Lounge Diner in San Francisco in 1993.By @edkashi