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 are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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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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As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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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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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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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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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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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 are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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