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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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 Orton

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  • 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 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 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 ORTON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

    The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Orton Quote - I’m not comfortable holidaying in other people’s poverty.

    I’m not comfortable holidaying in other people’s poverty.

    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 - 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.

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

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

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