Top 100 Tori Quotes
#1. I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.
Tori Kelly
#2. I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
Tori Amos
#3. Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.
Tori Amos
#4. I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.
Tori Amos
#6. The problem with such guidelines is that they never seemed applicable to the real-world situation.
Tori L. Harris
#7. Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?
Tori Amos
#8. As soon as you stop being humbled by the creation process, Little One, it is so much bigger than you are. And when you think it is you and you are it, it will drown you or burn you alive.
Tori Amos
#9. There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
Tori Amos
#10. Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
Tori Amos
#11. If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
Tori Amos
#12. I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.
Tori Amos
#13. The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
Tori Amos
#14. It's hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair.
Tori Amos
#15. I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
Tori Amos
#16. When you're so happy that you have to close your eyes when you smile so that your eyes don't jump out of your head
Tori Kelly
#17. Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.
Tori Amos
#18. I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.
Tori Amos
#19. My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
Tori Amos
#20. I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.
Tori Amos
#21. No way was Tori going to play nanny to Sleepover Barbie, thank you very much. Not no... not hell no... fucking uh-uh!
Bethany K. Lovell
#22. Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.
Tori Amos
#23. Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.
Tori Amos
#24. I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?
Tori Amos
#26. There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'
Tori Amos
#27. As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
Tori Amos
#28. When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.
Tori Amos
#29. On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.
Tori Amos
#30. I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.
Tori Spelling
#31. I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.
Tori Kelly
#32. I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
Tori Amos
#33. I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
Tori Amos
#34. For every ten vampires who are happy being monsters, there's always one sad-sack who misses the sunrise.
Tori Centanni
#35. I wanna run, i wanna stay. hold every piece, so it won't break.
Tori Kelly
#36. I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.
Tori Amos
#37. 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
#38. Said to him. "We aren't playing here. Guns kill people." "Guns don't kill people," Tori said. "People kill people." "People with guns kill people," I said. "But you're right. We have to be able to protect ourselves.
D.J. MacHale
#39. There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.
Tori Amos
#40. Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.
Tori Amos
#41. 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
#42. I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon.
Tori Spelling
#43. I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.
Tori Spelling
#44. When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
Tori Amos
#45. I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!
Tori Spelling
#46. The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.
Tori Amos
#47. The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.
Tori Kelly
#48. Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.
Tori Amos
#49. There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
Tori Amos
#51. I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
R. J. Anderson
#52. People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
Tori Amos
#53. 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
#54. It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.
Tori Amos
#55. And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it.
Tori Amos
#56. People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.
Tori Kelly
#57. I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
Tori Amos
#58. I'm very at home working with mythology.
Tori Amos
#59. I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.
Tori Amos
#60. In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished
Tori Amos
#61. Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.
Tori Amos
#63. What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.
Tori Amos
#64. I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through
Tori Amos
#65. 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
#66. I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.
Tori Spelling
#67. sleeping beauty/
trips me with a frown
Tori Amos
#68. Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.
Tori Amos
#69. I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
Tori Amos
#70. I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
Tori Amos
#71. What I want is not to want what isn't mine
Tori Amos
#72. Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
Tori Amos
#73. My style is very laid back. I like to be comfortable, but with some kind of piece that pumps it up a little bit - something more high fashion.
Tori Kelly
#74. Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
Tori Amos
#75. She said, these dead petals,
honey, brought me here
Tori Amos
#76. People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Tori Amos
#77. In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Tori Amos
#78. When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.
Tori Amos
#79. And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.
Tori Amos
#80. 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.
Tori Amos
#81. I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.
Tori Amos
#82. I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.
Tori Amos
#83. Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.
Tori Amos
#84. I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
Tori Amos
#85. This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
Tori Amos
#86. I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
Tori Amos
#87. I look at Liv Tyler and think 'It's not fair', because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.
Tori Spelling
#88. With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
Tori Spelling
#89. People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.
Tori Amos
#90. I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.
Tori Amos
#91. I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?
Tori Amos
#92. There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
Tori Amos
#93. Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.
Tori Amos
#94. I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
Tori Amos
#95. 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.
Tori Amos
#97. Carbon made only wants to be unmade.
Tori Amos
#98. I wanted to marry Lucifer ... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force ... I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano ...
Tori Amos
#99. If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
Tori Amos
#100. When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.
Tori Amos
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