Quotes by Tori Amos

About Tori Amos:

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and composer. She is a classically trained musician and has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. She has received eight Grammy nominations.
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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. I would really just love to collaborate on that.

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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

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I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

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

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This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

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I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

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

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

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I don't see music as working.

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

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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...

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There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

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

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I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

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

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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.'

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

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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

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I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameTori Amos
  • DescriptionAmerican singer
  • BornAugust 22, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Pianist; Composer; Musician