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You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

Tori Amos

Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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Aunt Niece Years
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
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’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
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.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
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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Able People Tomatoes
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
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
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
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
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Feelings Last Way

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

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