Tori Amos Song Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Washington Allston

#3. We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

Carine Roitfeld

#4. Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.

Keanu Reeves

#5. Now is the time!" Ysabelle cried. "Now do I accede to the throne and claim my place as Handmaiden to Orion!

Robin Jarvis

#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. What I did, anybody can do.

Weegee

#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. There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.

Herbert Hoover

#11. 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

#12. Always remember you're unique Just like everyone else.

Cheyenne McCray

#13. Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately.

Dave Douglas

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

Tori Amos

#15. There is an expression here on Capitol Hill," Issa told me. "'Don't ever get between a member and a camera.'" That can be particularly harrowing in the case of Issa, who had purchased a T-shirt for Bardella that said: "It's all about me.

Mark Leibovich

#16. If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Ken Hensley

#17. I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

Klaus Kinski

#18. 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

#19. Time after time, they brought each other to new heights of ecstasy, until finally, they lay spent in each others arms in the quiet peace and contentment that only lovers know.

Alan Kinross

#20. 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

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

Tori Amos

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.

Cedric The Entertainer

#25. If a demon and a vampire mated, their offspring would be unique but in harmony, like a Labrador retriever crossed with a poodle. Voila, labradoodle!

Kresley Cole

#26. 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

#27. 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