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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.

Tori Amos

I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
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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Jazz Complicated Looks World
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
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.
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Emotional Song Together
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
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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Happen Music Love Trying Works
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
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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Coffee Discipline Zombie

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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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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