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 AMOSMost people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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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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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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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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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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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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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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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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