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"As a singer I go to another instrument to learn MY instrument. As a piano player I went to the guitar players, I went to Jimmy Page. I go to other mediums. If I'm dealing with rhythm, alot of times I'll go listen to race cars. I'll listen to the engines rev. So I always go to another medium sometimes to understand mine better."
-- Tori; VH-1 Crossroads, Jun 19, 1996
"There is no dividing line between any of this. What we call classical music now was not perceived then as it is today. These composers--Mozart, Bartok--were the Jimi Hendrixes of their day. So, now, when we see people with stinky cheese and glasses of wine, that's not what was indigenous to those guys. They were broke, with all sorts of veneral disease. They were mercenaries, hired by the court to write this stuff. Some of them broke that mold. So this 'classical' music was the rock n roll of its day." Musical genres compliment each other in that same spirit, she said. "Look at Hendrix or Jimmy Page. They were both influenced by jazz, which came out of tribal and classical roots. You can't seperate them. A great jazz player and a great classical player would have a lot to talk about over a margarita. Two great classical players, though, wouldn't have much to say."
-- Tori; The Tulsa World Newspaper, Nov 1, 1996
"I was a huge Zeppelin fan at the time, and it took me a while to get into Elton, just because 'Your Song' wasn't really my thing. I was into Jimmy Page. I wanted to be Jimmy Page."
-- Tori; Entertainment Weekly, May 29, 1998
"Something really clicked in me when I discovered Led Zeppelin. And you have to understand what that did for me because first of all, oh my God, besides the guitar playing, which was you know, I *wanted* to be Jimmy Page. That's what I really wanted to be."
-- Tori; MTV Revue, Nov 4, 1998
"My heart goes out to where that song [Northern Lad] comes from. It's very much about thinking you were loved for who you were, and realizing you weren't, and realizing maybe you don't love yourself. The line, I guess you go too far/when pianos try to be guitars is just about never being enough. I felt that with my instrument sometimes, wanting to be Jimmy Page. You can only be you. A lot of times it's never enough for people."
-- Tori; Alternative Press Magazine, July 1998
"I've done everything I can to it but at a certain point, you know, you just have to accept that this ain't gonna do what Jimmy Page does so... I started stealing from him."
-- Tori; Later with Jools Holland, May 22, 1998
I: Did you ever want to be a man?
T: When I was younger, yes. First Jimi Hendrix, then Jimmy Page. Both played guitar and for me they were the absolute symbols of coolness. But then I got a guitar on my own. And after that I never wanted to be somebody else again.
-- Tori; kulturSPIEGEL, Sep 2001
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