Tori Amos quotes - page 8

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights. (Tori Amos)
Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power. View quote
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I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts. View quote
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As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going. View quote
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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. View quote
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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. View quote
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Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends. No, they felt igno. View quote
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I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream. View quote
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I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. (Tori Amos)
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. View quote
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It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. View quote
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When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.' View quote
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Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it. View quote
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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. View quote
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To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. View quote
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I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. View quote
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I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Tori Amos)
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. View quote
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I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. View quote
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The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe, ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. View quote
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So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown. View quote
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