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.
TORI AMOSThe 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.’
More Tori Amos Quotes
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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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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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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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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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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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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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These precious things, let them bleed.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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I 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.
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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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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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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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I like involved projects.
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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.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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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’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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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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