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Harpsichordist Inspirational Quotes (334)

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The pop world has really opened its doors.
Tori Amos
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Your apocalypse was fab.
Tori Amos
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In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.
Barbara Harbach
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I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then come to a close. I usually feel that there are no superfluous extras, but probably most composers feel that way about their works.
Barbara Harbach
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I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.
Joanna Newsom
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I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
Joanna Newsom
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People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Tori Amos
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Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.
Emilie Autumn
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I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.
Tori Amos
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Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Tori Amos
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I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.
Joanna Newsom
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It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.
Tori Amos
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You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand
Tori Amos
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I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.
Glenn Gould
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The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.
Mahan Esfahani
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Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!
Wanda Landowska
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I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.
Tori Amos
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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
Tori Amos
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The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?
Tori Amos
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My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'
Tori Amos
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I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.
Tori Amos
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u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
Glenn Gould
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There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
Tori Amos
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