There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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More Tori Amos Quotes
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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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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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Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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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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I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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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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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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