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Harpsichordist Inspirational Quotes (334)

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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
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Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.
Tori Amos
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.
Tori Amos
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The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Glenn Gould
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
Emilie Autumn
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I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
Tori Amos
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Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
Emilie Autumn
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I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.
Tori Amos
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There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.
Tori Amos
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Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
Glenn Gould
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I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
Joanna Newsom
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Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.
Tori Amos
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Music is a science which should have definite rules these rules should be drawn from an evident principle and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
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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
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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
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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
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I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.
Glenn Gould
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.
Mahan Esfahani
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Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.
Emilie Autumn
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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
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I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
Joanna Newsom
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And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?
Tori Amos
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