Tori Amos Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Morning, Kings

• 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, Hearing Things

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

• 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

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

• In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half, it is necessary for me to listen and take in someone else's focused energy the day of or the day before the live show. That can transpire through a conversation, or inspiration can occur by looking through any type of visual book which sparks a narrative. That narrative then becomes today's seed and can then take root in music terms, where a sonic tree begins to grow.

  Tori Amos

  Book, Inspiration, Roots

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