There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
TORI AMOSAt 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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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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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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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.
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got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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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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Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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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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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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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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