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 AMOSI think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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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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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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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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An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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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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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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