Top 369 Quotes & Sayings by Tori Amos - Page 2
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.'
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.'
I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.
There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.
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.
Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
The pop world has really opened its doors.
Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.
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.
Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.
I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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.
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.
There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.
I don't kid around.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other.
As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.
I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.
I like cosy, intimate houses.
You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.
I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.
If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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.
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
I don't see music as working.
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