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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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.

Beth Orton

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  • 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’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 - 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 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 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.

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

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

    BETH ORTON