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Tori Amos Quotes | Quotes said by Tori Amos

  • Tori Amos Quote #1

    A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.


  • Tori Amos Quote #2

    And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

  • Tori Amos Quote #3

    As a songwriter, I'm gathering clues and possibilities all the time, whether I see a piano that day or not. I've tried to explain to people how I collect these dispatches, because I think anybody can do what I'm talking about. Once I do plug in, I might get only one line and two bar phrases of the melody. I always have elements of songs around that may never ever get recorded. As far back as Little Earthquakes, I began to realize that I needed to have a library of notes, phrases, words, things that might prove useful at any given time. Within a few months' time I'll gather hundreds of those fragments. Half won't be used. And then the craft comes in, the part that is about painting a world. You want listeners to smell the lavender, to feel the point of those knitting needles in a handbag of the granny who happens to harbor a loyalty to Madame Defarge. You want the listener to know the wood's burning in the stove when they walk into the song with me. Music is about all of your senses, not just hearing.

  • Tori Amos Quote #4

    Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

  • Tori Amos Quote #5

    Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

  • Tori Amos Quote #6

    Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

  • Tori Amos Quote #7

    He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

  • Tori Amos Quote #8

    Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

  • Tori Amos Quote #9

    I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

  • Tori Amos Quote #10

    I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

  • Tori Amos Quote #11

    I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

  • Tori Amos Quote #12

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

  • Tori Amos Quote #13

    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.

  • Tori Amos Quote #14

    I salute to you Commander
    and I sneeze
    'Cause I have Now
    an Allergy
    To your policies it seems

    Where have we gone wrong America?
    Mr. Lincoln we can't seem
    to find you anywhere out of the millions
    From the deserts
    To the mountains
    Over prairies
    To the shores
    Is this just the Madness of King George
    Yo George
    Is this just the Madness of King George
    Yo George
    Well you have the whole Nation
    on all fours.

  • Tori Amos Quote #15

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

  • Tori Amos Quote #16

    I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

  • Tori Amos Quote #17

    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.

  • Tori Amos Quote #18

    I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

  • Tori Amos Quote #19

    If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

  • Tori Amos Quote #20

    If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

  • Tori Amos Quote #21

    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.

  • Tori Amos Quote #22

    My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

  • Tori Amos Quote #23

    My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

  • Tori Amos Quote #24

    My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

  • Tori Amos Quote #25

    Never was a cornflake girl;
    Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

  • Tori Amos Quote #26

    Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

  • Tori Amos Quote #27

    she said, these dead petals,
    honey, brought me here

  • Tori Amos Quote #28

    sleeping beauty/
    trips me with a frown

  • Tori Amos Quote #29

    So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

  • Tori Amos Quote #30

    Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

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