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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

Author:Tori Amos

“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.”

“The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.”

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“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.”

Way Soul Sometimes Seems

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“and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree”

Ifs Way Tree Find Me

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“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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“Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.”

Ifs Way Feels Said Feelings Lasts Hours Defeated

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“There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.”

Thinking Knows Way Two Different Approach Wake Up Two Ways Different Approach

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“People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?”

People Way Computer Distance

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“If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me.”

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“I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.”

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“I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.”

Way Looks Eye Player Tables Cards My Way Bluffs

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“I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!”

Way Water Drunk Tone

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

Way Different Different Ways Repeats Exploring Presenting

Author:Tori Amos

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

Way Listening Routine Pilgrimage

Author:Tori Amos

“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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“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.”

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

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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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“My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.”

Way Religion Religious Walks Greater Missionary

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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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