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 AMOSIf 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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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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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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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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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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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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I want to be an integrated woman.
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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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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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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’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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