Beth Orton 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.”
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“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.”
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“From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.”
-- Beth OrtonSource : "I'm strong like an ox". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2002.
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“Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.”
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“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.”
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“The way I write, words can means lots of different things.”
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“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?”
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.
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“I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.”
-- Beth OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
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“When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.”
-- Beth OrtonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“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 OrtonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.”
-- Beth OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
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“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 OrtonSource : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.
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