Tori Amos
singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, recording artist, harpsichordist, film director
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All Quotes by Tori Amos
“A man bites into a dry peach and says "This peach is not good;" the peach replies "It is not my fault that you don't know the proper use for a dry peach."”
“Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.”
“Nothing's gonna stop me from floating.”
“I have got my rape hat on, honey, but I always could accessorize.”
“You thought that you were the bomb, yes well so did I.”
“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”
“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.”
“Say a word to the hangman for me, me and my baby.”
“So she prays for a prankster and lust in the marriage bedAnd he waits and he waits.”
“And I fear my fear is greater than my faith”
“Driving in my Saab, on my way to Ireland.”
“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's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.”
“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”
“That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.”
“If I saw someone destroy a piano I'd fuckin' kill 'em. Wouldn't think twice. [It's] Just defending your best friend!”
“Men have periods, too... they just don´t bleed.”
“And I started to think about this story that was taking over my car at that moment. "Jamaica Inn" walked into my Saab and she said, "You might not like my story because i'm not gonna tell you how it ends yet, and you need to travel it with me.”
“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.”
“And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it.”
“Dark Energy. It can be found in the observable Universe. Found in ratios of 75% more than any other substance. Dark Energy. It can be found in religious extremists, in cheerleaders. To come to the conclusion that Dark signifies mean and malevolent would define 75% of the Universe as an evil force. Alternatively, to think that some cheerleaders don't have razors in their snatch is to be foolishly unarmed.”
“I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.”
“Beck's bass player (Justin Meldal-Johnsen) suggested I do a cover of Slayer's 'Raining Blood," she says applying strawberry lip balm with her pinkie. "I was reading about what was going on in Afghanistan--the way women were being oppressed, the destruction of religious statues. And when i heard that song, i just imagined a huge juicy vagina coming out of the sky, raining blood over all those racist, misogynist fuckers.”
“Babooshka's just one of those song's you just can't get out of your head, can you? You know, how she just takes a word, and you start seeing images and pictures. To a word that maybe you haven't used … it's "Babooshka" and she's turned that into an emotion, that's just how she's able to use a combination of a word and a combination of a melody and the rhythm of that, and it creates a new language.”
“I just remember pulling aside, I was driving, and I heard it on the radio, in the states — and she didn't really get played a lot in the states, until that song — that really got played — a lot. I remember, I had to pull over, and listen to it, because I'd never heard anything like it.”
“The intention is to tell a story, to create a sonic world for us, a sonic painting, for us to walk into, without having to see her. She's transcending that. She's choosing to transcend that. And that's a very powerful thing to do.”
“And I rode along sideI had to steal it.”
“An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.”
“Just what God needs: one more victim.Why do we crucify ourselves?”
“Got enough guilt to start my own religion.”
“I've got a cat named Easter; he says, 'Will you ever learn?You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird.'”
“It was meso I must get out of this”
“I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay”
“God, sometimes you just don't come through. Do you need a woman to look after you?”
“So if I die today, I'll be the happy phantom,The happy phantom has no right to bitch.”
“Look, I'm standing naked before you;But I can't claim innocence.”
“So you can make me cum; that doesn't make you Jesus.”
“So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts.How's that thought for you?”
“Years go by You know we're too easy Easy Easy”
“I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.”
“I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flyingif that's what it takes to sail you home.”
“If you know me so well, then tell me which hand I use.”