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  • Beth Orton Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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.
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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 Orton

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  • 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 - When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I’m letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!

    When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I’m letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!

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

    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
  • 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 - 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 - 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 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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

    Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

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

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

    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 - 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’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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

    Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

    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