For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
TORI AMOSThere is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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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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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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Pretty is never beautiful.
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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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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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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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 have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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