I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
BETH ORTONWhen 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!
More Beth Orton Quotes
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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.
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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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Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
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When I’m on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.
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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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I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.
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Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.
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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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