You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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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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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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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’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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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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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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