Do what i want and make money tom waits

You either like Tom Waits or you don’t; he’s a little bit of an acquired taste and since I’m neither a music critic, a recording engineer or a musician I’ll comment on the discs themselves. We’ll find the engineer. Remove your shoes and no smoking, please. Retrieved February 9, Only 1 left in stock more on the way. If you are a Waits fan, this should easily satisfy.

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Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Be the first to learn about new releases! Follow Author. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, «Look at me

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Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Be the first to learn about new releases! Follow Author. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, «Look at me I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you No one wants to look at you. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, «Just cut the straight trees and do what i want and make money tom waits the rest.

And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day. We are monkeys with money and guns. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. I don’t know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds. 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 nothin’. They’re your days. Choke ’em! It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling. A: 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. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. All Quotes Add A Quote. Books by Tom Waits. Innocent When You Dream 1, ratings. The Early Years ratings.

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Tom Waits — Till the Money Runs Out , 1980

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Add Review to, January 6, Report. Then he spent the next two decades blithely breaking the rules. It’s like, let me see if you can walk to the corner with a blindfold. Fulfilled by Amazon. Although Waits had provided a voice-over for a television advert for Butcher’s Blend dog food, [] he hated when musicians allowed companies to use their songs in advertising; [] he said that «artists who take money for ads poison and pervert their songs».