Song Quotes by Tori Amos

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.

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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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A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

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Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

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Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

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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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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and…

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I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

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Im a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

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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,…

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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…

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I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

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My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He…

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You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something…

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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I…

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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what…

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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature.…

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I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never…

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“You want listeners to smell the lavender, to feel the point of those knitting needles in a handbag of the granny who…

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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…

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For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself.…

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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…

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Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite…

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Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new…

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“I think of the structure of any particular song as a house. The bathroom is the bathroom, and you have to understand…

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“Sometimes I don't feel I've translated them correctly. I listen to other songwriters and think they have translated their Sonic Light Being…

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I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore…

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A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something…

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For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

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My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would…

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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…

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It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

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I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

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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…

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If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's…

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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…

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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…

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“Music has an alchemical quality. And there's more than one voice on the piano. You have two hands. One can be playing…

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