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.
TORI AMOSI wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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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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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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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 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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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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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.
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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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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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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 think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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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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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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