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Here
are some quotes from Tori about playing live.
Happy reading!!
"I
come to share, a personal, a real personal secret together, and
it's reciprocal.
I get a lot back from that audience. I'm very, very dependent on
the crowd, very dependent."
[Phoenix Club, Toronto 1992]
...
"I
don't hide much, but sometimes people don't understand that I
talk about them.
Then we sit in the same room and they haven't got a clue. That's
also the reason why I don't want
to explain every detail of my work."
[Haaggshe Courant, 1994]
...
"I
like the freedom of being alone because there's an intimacy that
I develop with the audience
that I wouldn't otherwise. I mean, they could just as easily
bond with the drummer.
And the more distractions I give them, the easier it is for them
to avoid what I'm talking about."
[LA Times, 1994]
...
"Music
is the most powerful medium in the world because of the
frequencies.
You're hitting places in people that remind them that they're
more than just this functional being
that makes money, eats and shits and comes."
[George magazine, 1996]
...
"I
talk to a lot of strangers through my music.
But it's not like I sit down with everybody and have spaghetti
afterwards."
[CNN Online, 1998]
...
"You
know the sad thing about theaters? They always look best from up
on the stage.
And I'm the only one who can see it from here."
[Unknown]
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"The
way I play is a bit tortuous, but at the same time, it's the
only way I know how to play.
It would be hard for me to hit those notes with that power and
play with accuracy unless
I supported myself physically the way I do."
[Unknown]
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"Playing
is the only place where I've felt in touch with my sexuality, my
spirituality and my emotions,
and never, ever anywhere else. So my life is a bit tricky
because when I'm not playing,
I'm just trying to walk down the street."
[Unknown]
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"I
haven't missed a show yet, I don't know whether that's a good or
a bad thing.
Maybe I should have. Some musicians will do anything to cancel,
a little ache in their throat
or whatever. I'm not like that. I've been playing since I was
two and a half and I really see it as being,
well... you be great at what you do. You be stellar. I believe
in excellence.
I've done three world tours and I haven't cancelled one show
yet."
[Unknown]
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"When
you come to my shows, you think you're walking into this really
yummy lunch,
and little do you know you ARE lunch."
[Unknown]
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"If
I saw someone destroying a piano, I would fecking murder them!
I wouldn't think twice!"
[Unknown]
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"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."
[Sunday New York Times, 1996]
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"I
remember (my first memory of piano) as clear as day. This huge
black upright.
It had one of those winding stools on it that could wind down
low or wind up really high,
and I would wind it down to get on it and then I would ask my
brother to wind it up so I could reach
the keys. He would always wind it up for me."
[All These Years Biography, pg. 7]
...
"You
see, I'm not music theory smart. To me, it's an internal,
instinctive thing.
It's like, I don't care if this si making mathematical sence, I
am not creaming. If I'm really honest,
looking back, I wanted my father to be proud of me. But I
couldn't do it in that way, because
it has to be in your soul to be a great concert pianist."
[Unknown]
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"There
are a lot of poets and groove people, but there's not much music
out there.
My own devotion is to music. Everyone told me this
me-and-my-piano thing was never
going to work."
[Newsweek, 1996]
...
"I've
never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an
emotional player.
I don't really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It's
totally reliable and it's alive.
I can hear what it's saying. For the most part, pianos are
female to me. Sometimes they're dykes,
and they're always good fun."
[Unknown]
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"I
take that stage and that piano and demon girls come out."
[All These Years Biography, pg. 29]
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"I
know when I'm playing passionately, and it's primitive and it's
as old as time.
But I know when I look at myself and I'm in anguish, sexualizing
myself.
At that point I was very cut off - I only knew how to express
myself sexually through my instrument.
But it left me as soon as I got offstage. So I searched for it
and tried to find it in other people."
[Unknown]
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"The
reason I love to play Bösendorfers 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."
[Piano and Keyboard, 1993]
...
Tori
works with two Bösendorfers, "the one that I own and the
one that I tour with. The Bösey I own is very much a recording
instrument, she's not into touring. She's eight years old now.
She was in a church in NY City for a while where she got
battered and abused, and she got shoved around every club in the
city before she was in the church, so she just got the shit beat
out of her in NY, and I felt like she and I understood each
other, so, she had to be rebuilt kind of, and I just take really
good care of her. She gathers her energy and then we put it into
the record. The piano I'm touring with is a year old, so she's
feisty and wants to see the world and check out boys
multi-culturally. She was rotting in this showroom in London. So
she's happy to be on the road with me, meeting all these cute
dudes."
[All These Years Biography, pg. 97]
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"I'm
a road dog, I love being on the road."
[Unknown]
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"I think I'm a really fair boss. When I'm on the road I
have 35 people with me and I work them really hard. But I don't
like bullies - if there's a bully we weed them out."
[Unknown]
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"I don't play the piano, the piano plays me."
[Unknown]
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