Tori Amos Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• 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.

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  Mother, Daughter, Song

• My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

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  Father, Rocks, House

• 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.

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  Father, Beer, Corn On The Cob

  "Tori Amos: I'd start the day with three dozen oysters then a rare steak. I felt powerful on stage'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

• Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

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  Father, Evil, Lucifer

  Song: Father Lucifer, Album: Boys for Pele, 1996

• My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

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  Father, Church, Ability

• So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

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  Jobs, Father, Gay

• 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.

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  Mother, Morning, Kings

• My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

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  Kings, Father, Rights

  "Tori Amos: My family values". Interview with Jamie Tabberer, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.

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