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Portrait of Melody Gardot

Melody Gardot

(1985) Singer-songwriter

110 quotes in 410 categories

Music is the universal language that scores our lives. She says she will write songs whenever she can, using any instrument nearby. She also shares that not making music feels like a musician’s death, and she even dances tango by guiding a partner’s fingertips.

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Melody Gardot is a singer-songwriter.

Quick Facts About Melody Gardot

Born: February 2, 1985
Profession: Singer-songwriter

About Melody Gardot

American jazz singer... | Melody Joy Gardot ; born February 2, 1985) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and composer. Widely considered as one of the best jazz vocalists of her generation, she is known for her smoky contralto voice, understated vocal delivery, and a musical style that blends jazz with blues, bossa

Quotes by Melody Gardot

I didn't choose jazz; jazz chose me.

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I love how my life is turning out.

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I don't live in fear.

Fear

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I'm a bad walker but I can dance tango.

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Music is everything.

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My mom always sang to me.

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I was in physical rehab for a year.

Fitness

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My songs are based on life.

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The moment I got to France, I fell in love with it.

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That's my biggest aspiration: to make people happy.

Aspiration

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I remember first standing up to hold a guitar on stage being an accomplishment.

Accomplishment

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I had to learn how to walk three times: every time I learned, I learned wrong.

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I have a bunch of riding crops and manage to go riding about twice a year.

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My mother dropped a dish on the floor one day and the sound made me collapse.

Collapse

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The people that are inspirational to me are those who are truly struggling.

Inspiration

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I went to the school of hard knocks. I don't mess around.

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Sometimes you have to be broken down to your core to get back to your essence. You have accumulated a crust from…

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In truth, inspiration comes from anyone who creates music with great soul and great essence.

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Louis Armstrong was about playing with soul and emotion, not about showing how technically brilliant he was.

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I'm generally not a materialistic person, but I definitely have more shoes than I need.

Fashion

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I rarely shop in the high street, I'm too busy travelling, but if I have to grab something quickly, it would be…

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If you listen - and I don't, usually - to my first two records, I sound like a baby surrounded by a…

Baby

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Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade…

Design

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In America we live to work: we work like crazy and I know people like to celebrate but they don't get the…

America

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I've never aspired to make 'jazz music,' I simply aspired to make music that was in a word, self-soothing and relevant to…

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Fear is a useless emotion. It prevents everything from happening. It's like closing every door and every window to your opportunity for…

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When you're 19 and 20, you're running around at a million miles an hour, and the world can't even catch up. But…

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Hey, the world is my home! And it's not scary - it's beautiful, liberating and enchanting, and you live moments out of…

Beautiful

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In Lisbon, you encounter fado, which has been spoon-fed to the tourists almost like the tango in Argentina. But the real sounds…

Argentina

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Before, I was living in Philadelphia and thinking and speaking of things I had experienced in one environment alone. After leaving, I…

Alone

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I'm a big fan of motionless sound. I love when you're listening to a song and you can hear the harmonies, not…

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Music is a fundamental part of our civilization, so when it goes to sub zero, we have two choices, right? We do…

Choices

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I'm a bad walker but I can dance tango. You know why? Put your hand up. Push on my fingertips and just…

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The profound nature of our existence is that we are able at any moment to connect to anyone, anywhere. History is there…

Compassionate

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In college, I was a painter, and I had a strong interest in fashion. I just like this concept of being able…

Art

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I learned to play guitar on my lying back while I was bed-ridden. I only thought to record the songs because sometimes…

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When someone tells you you're not going to walk again and you spend about a year and half on your back, your…

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I was riding my bicycle and I was hit by a Jeep. And the damage that was done to my body was…

Bicycle

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I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any…

Art

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I've got so much to be grateful for.

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Melody Gardot by topic

Song (22) Music (19) People (11) Life (10)