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

People Way Want Listening To Music

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“I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?”

Want Home Technology Feet Computer Messages Nine Piano

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“Look, I'm standing naked before you; Don't you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can't claim innocence.”

Want Looks I Can Lasts Sex Standing Claims Naked Innocence Loud Scream

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“What I want is not to want what isn't mine”

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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 ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.”

“Carbon made only wants to be unmade.”

Want Made Carbon

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“Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!”

Ifs Want Wells Mean Said Wanted Dies Plant Thirteen Fart

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“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.'”

Knows Want Kind Mean Sometimes Clear Talent Messages Dear Darling Montana Miley Amazing Talent Hannah Montana

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“Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.”

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“If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.”

Ifs Want Challenges Deals

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

Knows Want Call Me Shrinks

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“I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.”

Thinking Want Giving Trying Ideas Running Values Passing Passings Sand Grain Accumulation Time Passing Time Passes Sidelines Grains Of Sand

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“I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”

Knows Want Littles Taste Little Things Acquired Taste

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“Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.”

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“I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.”

Men Want Giving Too Much Foolish Ink Foolish Man

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“I want to be an integrated woman.”

Want Integrated

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“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.”

People Want Giving Known News Aim

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“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.”

Thinking Want Dream Best Things Your Dreams Composer Things In Life Best Things In Life

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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 doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.”

Knows Way Want Song Asks Husband British My Husband

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“Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.”

People Thinking Want Two Difficult Careers Tricky Limelight

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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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“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

“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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“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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“I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?”

Want Sex Standing Naked Explanation

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About the Author

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

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Tori Amos: Piece by PieceRelated source material

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Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and CourageRelated source material

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