Tori Amos

Tori Amos

36 quotes

Since 1963, American singer-songwriter Tori Amos has given the world some of its most quotable lines. Tori Amos's observations on Music are as sharp as their thoughts on Women, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Our collection holds 41 quotes from Tori Amos, each offering a different angle on Music, Women, Mom, Business, and Relationship. Readers often gravitate to this one: "People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career."

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“There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.”

— Tori Amos

Women

All Quotes by Tori Amos

“The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.”

— Tori Amos

Women

“I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.”

— Tori Amos

Car

“There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.”

— Tori Amos

Women

“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

Love

“I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.”

— Tori Amos

Relationship

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

— Tori Amos

Music

“I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.”

— Tori Amos

Alone

“If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.”

— Tori Amos

Alone

“I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.”

— Tori Amos

Art

“I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.”

— Tori Amos

Love

“People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.”

— Tori Amos

Business

“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

Women

“I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.”

— Tori Amos

Change

“I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.”

— Tori Amos

Dreams

“A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.”

— Tori Amos

Marriage

“People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.”

— Tori Amos

Music

“I don't see music as working.”

— Tori Amos

Music

“Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.”

— Tori Amos

Food

“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

Women

“I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.”

— Tori Amos

Faith