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Tori Amos

Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
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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Guy Jesus Years
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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Important Music Sometimes
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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Jazz Complicated Looks World
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
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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Church Daughter People Play Separation
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie

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