Quotes by Beth Orton

Beth Orton

Even when I haven’t had money, I found money to travel. It’s a luxury that’s a kind of necessity, I think.

Kind

Luxury

Thinking

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Elements

Humans

Wanted

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.

Believe

Men

Thinking

I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.

Guitar

Taught

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.

Feelings

Guitar

Melody

I get told I’m a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word “confessional”. I don’t like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don’t want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

Ideas

Negative

Thinking

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.

Brother

Insecure

Trying

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.

Children

Helping Others

Light

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.

Love Is

Sea

Swimming

I want it to be more universal than that – like a painter doesn’t have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

Painting

Stories

Want

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Believe

Blow

Brother

Children

Comfortable

Couple

Development

Different

Elements

Essence

Faces

Feelings

Generations

Glowing

Guitar

Hair

Hands

Helping Others

Humans

Hurt

Ideas

Insecure

Inspiration

Kids

Kind

Kissing

Light

Love Is

Luxury

Marijuana

Mean

Melody

Men

Negative

Nightmare

Painting

People

Poison

Poverty

Said

Scratches

Sea

Stories

Summer

Swimming

Taught

Thinking

Trying

Want

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Quotes by Beth Orton

Beth Orton

Even when I haven’t had money, I found money to travel. It’s a luxury that’s a kind of necessity, I think.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

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.

I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.

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.

I get told I’m a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word “confessional”. I don’t like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don’t want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

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.

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.

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.

I want it to be more universal than that – like a painter doesn’t have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

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