Tori Amos "Course on Creativity" at UCLA, 1995

"Tori's Course on Creativity" at UCLA on February 27, 1995. Thanks to Lisa for sharing this rare Tori Amos talk. Read the transcript: www.yessaid.com/int/1995-02-27...

[@FrootKat]

she was so switched on!!!! so ahead of her time. I feel like I found a holy grail here! :)

[@OrchestralOrg]

*you have that backwards. She's purest evil, a satanic harlot, worships lucifer. She's revolting. Try quickening in the spirit of truth and open your ears.*

[@christianschraga5943]

I was there that day! I was first in line. I sat next to her mom and dad. Sitting in line that morning was the first chance I ever had to meet other Tori-philes (It was the pre-internet days). I remember it super clearly. Thanks for posting this is like a trip in a time machine.

[@saraphelps3037]

That's awesome. 😊 I wish I could have been there! It's also really amazing, in retrospect, to be able to see her post Under the Pink and pre Boys for Pele!!! 😁😍😊

[@samanthak9078]

That's so awesome

[@gregwiles3296]

What an amazing experience, and an incredible memory for you. How exciting!! 🤩

[@slivertoe]

Oh, God, the Sugar question! Life before the interwebs, when you have to ask Tori Amos herself about a B-side. I love it.

[@SurrealisticSlumbers]

Her voice is so soothing. Lovely and extraordinarily intelligent lady.

[@jasonkempdialog]

Great to be able to see and hear this from the archives. Many insights there. Note: It finishes at around 38:52 and then a whole section is repeated up to the end point again.

[@upendasana7857]

She is so amazing,I love her so much,she is so honest and so unconcerned with her fame and success but brings music back to its real power,to heal and touch people's hearts.I love her so much.

[@panictowel2695]

She's so right

[@MicheleG1989_]

This is incredible, it's like a transition from UTP to BFP era!

[@VenusXTC]

Thank you so much for sharing this. As an Pianist and Songwriter myself Tori is a HUGE inspiration and it's a real gift to be able to hear her speak of her creative process, she's such a visionary, way ahead of her time. She is just so connected!

[@madonnasponytail]

This is phenomenal.

[@anewpath4097]

wow I am glad this came up on my youtube! woah!

[@katielawrence5420]

I love Tori Amos.

[@samsarah7000]

This is SO GOOD. Thank you for sharing!

[@audioredux6836]

Incredible like always.

[@ruinsane100]

Whoa!!! This is awesome!

[@marionhammer]

Gosh thank you so very very very very much!

[@MR-pg6ru]

Omg thank you so much for this upload!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this! ♥ =)

[@janknuckey]

Holy moly! I never saw this funny, flirty, plain-talking Tori back in the day, when I first got into her in '91. By the time I began to see her in interviews she'd been burned by journalists with an agenda and music execs who wanted to control her; she was more guarded, more considered, more intense. The shift into metaphor and tangential stream of consciousness came to be her stock-in-trade, and although I always loved to hear what she had to say I would often think "Jeez, lady, lighten up!". So glad she came through the hard times stronger and wiser, though. And with her sense of humour still intact.

[@tashaschneider1419]

Not sure what you were listening to, But Myra exposed herself as being a very evil woman in this "course in creativity". After emotionally abusing her boyfriends (she would go on to abuse children in "Raspberry Swirl", four years later!!!!!), she cheated on one of her boyfriends with Trent "I'm a Whore" Reznor (notice she didn't want to answer the question regarding him), and had the nerve to play victim on "Boys for Pele" by promoting gun violence, therefore she contributed to a culture of violence (as Reznor has done.) Moreover, nobody needs a "course in creativity" from a woman who never learned any instrument besides a keyboard and who receives her music from demonic entities (she can't write without them.)

[@evang.6771]

Tasha Schneider jesus christ why do you hate her so much??? you’re like dissing her in every video i find of her. get a hobby. jeez.

[@eleanor4759]

I notice that also! Her 90's interviews are the best. ❤❤❤❤

[@JesseColton]

Tori's explosion at 15:04

[@ajschramm]

wow!

[@johnfeliceCeprano]

100%

[@sparklegirl9976]

I am old

[@minnchi5125]

i Am Old, too :-D... and it's kinda fabuLouS, is it not? ^_^ kant wate 2 get oldeR-er~ ;) Best Regardes, Sparke Girl xxoxo

[@emilybusby6922]

“Tori requested no filming for the first part of her presentation…” so I went ahead and steamrolled over her privacy and decided to film anyway. Way to go.

[@awakeningyourfire2088]

Where has this been?!

[@upendasana7857]

.....and what she says about women being tougher and harder is so true.We have been totally taught to compete for that male attention and feel validated by it but many boys are caught in that game as well and end up playing out there machismo and paying with their lives.

[@morleychallenged]

We are at the same age. I can't do that anymore either.

[@morleychallenged]

Totall LLovvee, Tori!! (I can't even type now. Aw, Shit, anyway...

[@tashaschneider1419]

A woman who has never learned any other instrument besides a keyboard, and who receives her songs from demon spirits is going to lecture us on "creativity".... oh no....

[@deathmetalpotato]

Shut the fuck up, idiot.

[@jakeconrad11]

If this is a joke then your satirical performance needs improvement. If this is truly who you are than Good lord. Your cynical nature has deconstructed and destroyed your common sense.

[@rodrigofarias578]

Seriously Tasha what an awful comment. Not only because you're so wrong you don't even know how wrong you are (the woman is a living legend and has a brilliant and extensive musical output), but because your comment _reeks of resentment._ Maybe deal with the issues blatantly lurking behind such a bitter display of negativity and then you'll be able to even begin to appreciate Tori's music. Seriously and unironically, good luck with that.

[@tashaschneider1419]

@@rodrigofarias578 Please read Myra's interviews, there's a whole catalogue of them available online. In them, she openly admits that she is incapable of writing anything without her demon guides she refers to as "faeries." She admits that she is "not a great piano player", and is jealous of great musicians (Bach, Handel, Buxtehude) and is bitter that she cannot play very well. She is the worst harpsichordist I have ever heard. You've got some serious reading to do.

[@tashaschneider1419]

@@jakeconrad11 As I always tell delusional Myra fans, GO READ HER INTERVIEWS. She admits that she "is not a great pianist" and that she can't write anything without her demon guides ("faeries") giving her music. Her harpsichord "playing" was the worst this author has ever heard, and to justify how badly she played it, she said she used it only for "percussion" as part of her commitment to rock n roll (because rock n roll sucks and takes very little talent to play). She was expelled from a conservatory because classical music was much too complicated and brilliant for small and limited talent. She has not learned any instrument besides a keyboard, and this just lazy and non-innovative. And that is to say nothing of her very serious failures as a human being.