Top 280 Tori Amos Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I don’t see music as working.”

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252. “I want to be an integrated woman.”

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253. “I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don’t accept anything less.”

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254. “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.’”

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255. “I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.”

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256. “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.”

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257. “I’m a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.”

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258. “There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.”

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259. “From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.”

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260. “I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.”

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261. “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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262. “People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.”

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263. “I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.”

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264. “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.”

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265. “I don’t feel I’m as good a mum as my mum was.”

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266. “It’s not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it’s okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.”

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267. “I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.”

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268. “I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.”

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269. “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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270. “I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.”

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271. “People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I’m in complete charge of my own career.”

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272. “At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.”

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273. “This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.”

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274. “I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.”

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275. “There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn’t always the best way in.”

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

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277. “I’m not very social when I’m off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It’s very reclusive.”

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278. “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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279. “I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother – she worked in a record store.”

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280. “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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281. “I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.”

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282. “There’s a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can’t write. It’s a big business.”

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283. “And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?”

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284. “I’m not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.”

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285. “I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?”

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286. “I’ve been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don’t want to hear. But I never aim for the head.”

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287. “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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288. “It’s fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.”

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289. “Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.”

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290. “But over the years you can cultivate hate for the art you love.”

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291. “I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.”

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292. “Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist’s development.”

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293. “What I wished another songwriter would have told me years and years ago is that your circumstances make up your story, and no one has exactly your story. It is your very own. You need never envy someone else’s life story. Not as a songwriter.”

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