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 AMOSThe music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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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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I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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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 like involved projects.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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