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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

Tori Amos

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
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up
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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Hands Moving Sorrow
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Drunk Moisture Water Way
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

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