I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
TORI AMOSMy 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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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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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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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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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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There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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