Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
TORI AMOSMy father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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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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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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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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These precious things, let them bleed.
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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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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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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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