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Singer-songwriter

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter renowned for her distinctive piano-driven sound and introspective lyrics. She has released numerous albums and has won multiple awards, including a Grammy. Her music often delves into themes of personal relationships and emotional vulnerability.

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Famous Tori Amos Quotes

“The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.”

Choices Grows Realizing Growing Up Growing Keys Consequence Choices You Make Key Things

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“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.”

Knows Way Firsts Littles Energy Gun Daring Hunters Nurturing Another Life Cubs

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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.”

Ifs World Looks Language Jazz Complicated Chords Richness Progression

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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.”

Play Song Audience Conversation Response

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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.'”

Knows Looks Littles Used Mother Talking Mom My Mom Strings Honey Sections Look At Me

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“When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed, that pervades everything.”

People Thinking Want Two Difficult Creative Doors Fields Equal Developing Competing Limelight

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“When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.”

Ifs Looks Littles Games Realizing Rooms Magazines Artistic Magazine Covers

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“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.”

Thinking Made Age Technology Century Figures Discovery Abuse 21st Century

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“Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.”

Want Love Looks War Sometimes Facts Fighting Belief Conquer Making Peace

Book:Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“Pretty is never beautiful.”

Beautiful Beauty

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“Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.”

Thinking Earth Adolescence Heartless

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“It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.”

Faces Voice Realizing Steps Changed Survivor Locked Jailer

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“Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.”

Want I Can Happened Bitter Survivor Locked Can't Change Locked Up

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“Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.”

Different Whole Choices Growth Different Things Womanhood Girlhood

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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.”

People Made Self America Felt Enemy Boys Morning Worst Ignorance Shots Worst Enemy Classmates Positive Self Positive Self Image Ignoring People

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“I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.”

Knows Mean Eye Courses Names Party Bridges Jumping Jumping Off Jumping Off A Bridge

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“You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.”

People Knows Trying Too Much Calm Painful Fierce

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“If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.”

Ifs Drowning Mermaid

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“The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.”

Want Bigs Lasts Turns Girl Known Victim Survivor

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“You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.”

Looks Feelings Reality Pretending

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“When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.”

Standing Shoes Soulmate Comes And Goes

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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. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.”

Years Made Song Choices Asks Records Cry Needed Conscious Gun Victim Rage

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“It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses.' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too.”

Ifs Knows Men Feels Believe I Believe Heal Ice Dirty Good Man Goddess Cream Ice Cream Perversion Wanton Reverting

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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.”

Giving Teach Taught Findings Give Me Vulnerability Hiding Pioneers

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“You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.”

Justify Pissed Off

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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 thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.”

Two Body Seems Song Half Consciousness Alive Awareness Grateful Physical Body Conjuring

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“I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Reality Knowing Fairy Dimensions Faerie Good Writers Alternate Realities

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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”

Dark Daughter Ice Ministers Cream Chasing Ice Cream Licking

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“If you jump, you best jump far.”

Ifs Design Graphic Graphic Design

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

Mind Heart Culture Music Is Reflection Heart And Mind

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“We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.”

Fairy Leafs Lilies Pads Lily Pads

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“There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.”

Matter Hard Values Strange

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“The only way out is to go so far in.”

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“In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished”

Sometimes Might Fall Pieces Keys Creating Best Things Fallen Accomplished Being The Best Improvising Fall Into Place Everything Falls Into Place

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“Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'”

Saved You Saved Me

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“The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.”

Believe Art Artist Source Illusion Don't Believe Myth Access Endless Confused Native Native American

Book:Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Real Wanted Felt Honest Needed Paint Being Honest Mask Cracks Masquerade

Book:Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.”

Sometimes Beautiful Sides Dark Walks Drink Approach Wine Glasses Deny Beach Demon Frightening Dark Side Wine Glass Beautiful You

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“In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango”

Real Play Sex Bones Real Life Dry Starving Dripping

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“An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.”

Breasts Milk Finest Tequila

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“I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested.”

Ifs Mean I Can Ends Done Whole Too Much Teaching Drug Tools Dancing Harm Sugar Not Interested Elephants Moderation Cocaine Pasta

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“That's the thing about letting old lovers go. You don't stop loving some of them. There are a couple you love no less than you ever did. Not to mention namesbut I'm still in love with a couple. You're not going to try and make it work again, but if they needed you, you'd drop everything.”

Ifs Trying Stills Couple Needed Lovers Old Love Still In Love

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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 prefer my piano to people. It's totally reliable and it's alive. I can hear what it's saying.”

People I Can Moving Felt Alive Player Emotional Piano

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“I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.”

Enough My Own Guilt

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

Way Needed Battle Best Way

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“Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.”

Friendship Crazy

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“Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.”

Evil Father Sane Lucifer

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“I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.”

Christian Beautiful Faces Boys

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“When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.”

Thinking Body Mines Stairs Masturbation

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“Have a seat, while I take to the sky.”

Inspirational Sky Seats

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About the Author

Born: August 22, 1963
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 366

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