Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, Iβm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.
Tori AmosRead
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote expresses the belief that music can serve as a safe means to process emotions and experiences.
Tori Amos suggests that she uses music as a medium to navigate her feelings and experiences because of a deep-seated skepticism towards humanity and herself. This indicates that, amidst uncertainty and distrust, she finds solace and reliability in the artistic expression of her songs, thereby highlighting the therapeutic power of music.
Themes
MusicTrustHumanityExpressionEmotionArt
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about creativity at a local arts festival, one might quote this to emphasize the power of music.
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If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.
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I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
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For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.
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