Best Tori Amos Song Quotes

#1. For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.

Tori Amos

#2. The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness ... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

David S. Rose

#3. We are the star and the darkness it peirces

Clive Barker

#4. If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

Saadi

#5. I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

Tommy Shaw

#6. A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

Tori Amos

#7. Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.

Sebastien De Castell

#8. Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

Hal Sparks

#9. There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music ... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

Tori Amos

#10. Do you know who we are Mum?" And at that moment I just look into her blue planets for eyes, and she says, "We are Daughters of Song, Mama." And at that I jump up with new life, pick her up, and say, "Now let's go play"_

Tori Amos

#11. Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.

Tori Amos

#12. You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

Tori Amos

#13. I am Celaena Sadorthein and I will be not afraid

Sarah J. Maas

#14. Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

Jon Meacham

#15. If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Tori Amos

#16. It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Gregg Easterbrook

#17. 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.

Tori Amos

#18. I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Tori Amos

#19. You can play with your flamethrower later.

Rick Riordan

#20. I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs ... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

Tori Amos

#21. For who can stop the heart from breaking?

Alan Paton

#22. There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.

Frederick Lenz

#24. For it all, we gladly sacrifice. With it all, we proudly defend." Spoken first by a Sirunre citizen, a member of the Kingdom Alliance of the Empire Seas.

A.W.Chrystalis

#25. When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience ... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Tori Amos

#26. To me, it's always what's next and I think that's what drives most very successful people. It's never about the money. I mean that's a way of keeping score. It's about achievement and it's about winning a game and it's about upping the ante.

Donny Deutsch

#27. I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

Tori Amos