Tori Amos famous quotes

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.
-- Tori Amos

#Inspirational #Motivational #Suicide

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
-- Tori Amos

#Art #Book #People

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Courage

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.
-- Tori Amos

#Art #Book #Ideas

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
-- Tori Amos

#Inspirational #Life #People

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.
-- Tori Amos

#Giving Up #Tonight

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.
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#Girl #Bird #Cages

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
-- Tori Amos

#Reality #Our Generation #Generations

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
-- Tori Amos

#Girl #Dirty #Naughty

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.
-- Tori Amos

#Loss #Stuff #Tricky

I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.
-- Tori Amos

#Party #Mean #Eye

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?
-- Tori Amos

#Religious #Brother #Law

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.
-- Tori Amos

#Girl #Want #Lasts

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

#Thinking #Long #Together

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.
-- Tori Amos

#Guilt #Enough

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.
-- Tori Amos

#Milk #Tequila #Finest

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
-- Tori Amos

#Inspirational #Sky

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

#Heart #Reflection #Mind

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

#Judging #Weirdo #Wacky

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
-- Tori Amos

#People #Sacred #Locks

I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.
-- Tori Amos

#Song #Grateful #Two

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.
-- Tori Amos

#Our World #People #Enough

Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.
-- Tori Amos

#Daughter #Mother #Song

If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.
-- Tori Amos

#Hands #Use #Wells

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.
-- Tori Amos

#Light #Express Yourself #Enjoy

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
-- Tori Amos

#Life #Pain #Self

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

#Littles #Taste #Want

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.
-- Tori Amos

#Pads #Lilies #Fairy

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
-- Tori Amos

#Thinking #Soul #Monsters

I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.
-- Tori Amos

#Believe #Reality #Thinking

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

#Dream #Pride #Hair

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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#Matter #Strange #Values

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
-- Tori Amos

#Challenges #Want #Deals

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.
-- Tori Amos

#Voice #Faces #Steps

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
-- Tori Amos

#Heart #People #Lines

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?
-- Tori Amos

#Mother #Thinking #High Heels

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare
-- Tori Amos

#Dream #Believe #Nightmare

The only way out is to go so far in...
-- Tori Amos

#Way

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.
-- Tori Amos

#Want #Survivor #Bitter

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
-- Tori Amos

#Fun #Piano #Dykes

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.
-- Tori Amos

#Zombie #Routine

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

#Father #Rocks #House

Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.
-- Tori Amos

#Beautiful #Beach #Wine

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
-- Tori Amos

#Want #Sometimes

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.
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#People #Doe #Intrigue

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.
-- Tori Amos

#Father #Beer #Church

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
-- Tori Amos

#Girl #Chinese #Description