We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
TORI AMOSI’m very at home working with mythology.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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