So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
TORI AMOSMy father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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The 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.’
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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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There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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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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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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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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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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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 see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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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 very at home working with mythology.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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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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