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  • Beth Orton Quote - I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
  • Beth Orton Quote - I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
  • Beth Orton Quote - I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
  • Beth Orton Quote - I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
  • Beth Orton Quote - I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
  • Beth Orton Quote - I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
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I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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 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.

    BETH ORTON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.

    I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.

    BETH ORTON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.

    My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.

    BETH ORTON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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.

    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.

    BETH ORTON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

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

    BETH ORTON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - 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?

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - Even when I haven’t had money, I found money to travel. It’s a luxury that’s a kind of necessity, I think.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - I was scared of the Bible – it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus’s disciples and I used to show them modern life – how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn’t change my feelings about the Bible jinx.

    I was scared of the Bible – it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus’s disciples and I used to show them modern life – how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn’t change my feelings about the Bible jinx.

    BETH ORTON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - When I’m on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

    When I’m on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

    BETH ORTON