Beth Orton famous quotes

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You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.
-- Beth Orton

#Beautiful #Working Together #Musician
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
-- Beth Orton

#Couple #Light #Smoking
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
-- Beth Orton

#Elements #Wanted #Humans
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
-- Beth Orton

#Heaven #Trying
I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.
-- Beth Orton

#Believe #Men #Thinking
I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.
-- Beth Orton
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
-- Beth Orton

#Writing #Mean #Different
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
-- Beth Orton

#Hands #Generations #Littles
Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.
-- Beth Orton

#Somewhere Else #Effort #Want
To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.
-- Beth Orton

#Blow #Essence #Poison
I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.
-- Beth Orton

#Children #Helping Others #Light
Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.
-- Beth Orton

#Summer #Kissing #Wheat Fields
I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.
-- Beth Orton

#Pigs #Cities #London
I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.
-- Beth Orton

#Brother #Insecure #Trying
I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.
-- Beth Orton

#Guitar #Taught
I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.
-- Beth Orton

#Writing #Scratches #Taught
When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.
-- Beth Orton

#Satisfied #Feels #Make Sense
I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.
-- Beth Orton

#Guitar #Feelings #Melody
At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.
-- Beth Orton

#Sibling #Drinking #Kissing
I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.
-- Beth Orton

#Fall #Mirrors #Sky
My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.
-- Beth Orton

#Beautiful #Dad #Book
When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.
-- Beth Orton

#Ponds #Frogs #Hours
I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.
-- Beth Orton

#People #Poverty #Comfortable
I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.
-- Beth Orton

#Swimming #Love Is #Sea
Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.
-- Beth Orton

#Thinking #Luxury #Kind

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