06.29.07
Tori on the Piano (ft. Tori Amos)
Tori Amos speaks about the piano the way i want to.
“I’ve been a musician before I was a human.”
“Since I was a little girl, I’ve been a
musician first. I wasn’t just an
extension of the piano; I was the piano.
That’s how people looked at me.”
“You see, I’m not music theory smart. To
me, it’s an internal, instinctive thing.”
“I’ve never felt anything that moves me
as much as my piano. I’m an emotional
player. I prefer my piano to people.
It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I
can hear what it’s saying.”
“It’s a passionate instrument…a
sensual instrument…and um, you can
hide men in it…”
(Hahaha… Dandi’s gonna start checkin
our pianos everyday from now on.)
“I don’t play the piano, the piano plays
me.”
“The reason I love to play Bosendorfers
is because I think their whole
manufacturing process is trying to keep
them as unmechanical, as unfactorized as
possible, so that the soul of everybody
who touches one or works with it is in
there.”
(Waaaahhhh!!! She’s got a Bose!!!)
“A piano is alive because of all the
feeling the men working on it put into it.”
“Pianos are like people; every piano has
a completely different personality.”
“I felt so intertwined with it that I
had no identity except the girl at the
piano”
“I wanted to have a marriage with the
instruments in a way that I never really
have.”
