My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
TORI AMOSThe violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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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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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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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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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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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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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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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 don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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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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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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