Phoebe Snow quotes

“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 Quotes #Guy Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“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 Quotes #Gone Quotes #Body Quotes

“The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.”
-- Phoebe Snow

Source : "NEW JERSEY Q & A: PHOEBE SNOW; Singing Her Way Back to the Top". Interview with Fred T. Abdella, www.nytimes.com. July 2, 1989.

#Singers Quotes #Common Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“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

Source : "NEW JERSEY Q & A: PHOEBE SNOW; Singing Her Way Back to the Top". Interview with Fred T. Abdella, www.nytimes.com. July 2, 1989.

#Successful Quotes #Artist Quotes #Records Quotes

“I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.”
-- Phoebe Snow

#Alive Quotes #Female Quotes #Fantasy Quotes

“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 Quotes #Might Quotes #Littles Quotes

“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 Quotes #Play Quotes #Sick Quotes

“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 Quotes #People Quotes #Sugar Quotes

“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 Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“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

Source : "NEW JERSEY Q & A: PHOEBE SNOW; Singing Her Way Back to the Top". Interview with Fred T. Abdella, www.nytimes.com. July 2, 1989.

#Motivation Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“I lost interest in being in the public eye.”
-- Phoebe Snow

#Eye Quotes #Lost Quotes #Interest Quotes

“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

Source : "Phoebe Snow obituary" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“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 Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Years Quotes

“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 Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Overwhelmed Quotes