Phoebe Snow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.
-- Phoebe Snow

#School #Guy #Enthusiasm
I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Independent #Gone #Body
The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Singers #Common #Jazz
The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Successful #Artist #Records
I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Alive #Female #Fantasy
Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.
-- Phoebe Snow

#People #Might #Littles
If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Baby #Play #Sick
A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?
-- Phoebe Snow

#Country #People #Sugar
There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Couple #Thinking #World
The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Motivation #Acceptance #Anxiety
I lost interest in being in the public eye.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Eye #Lost #Interest
With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Mother #Daughter #Responsibility
My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Mother #Daughter #Years
Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.
-- Phoebe Snow

#Priorities #Darkness #Overwhelmed

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