If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
TORI AMOSThere’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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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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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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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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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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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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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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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’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 want to be an integrated woman.
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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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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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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