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Tori Amos

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
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
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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Half Laughing Mouths
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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Ability Church Father
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
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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Believe Dream Nightmare
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
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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Humanity Song Trust
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
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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Giving Pioneers Taught
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
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
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
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

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