572 Quotes by Tori Amos

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    I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

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    When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.

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    I’m trying not to move, it’s just your ghost passing through.

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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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    I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

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    I’ve been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim.

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    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 back-story.

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    Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.

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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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