Beth Hart

I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.

— Beth Hart

No matter where I go, I never write the setlist until I'm at the venue.

— Beth Hart

'St. Teresa' is one of my favorites. It reminds me of the importance of grace.

— Beth Hart

I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma.

— Beth Hart

Leonard Cohen is probably the greatest lyricist for music that's ever lived, you know?

— Beth Hart

I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.

— Beth Hart

I wasn't really raised in a religious family.

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I don't really see myself as a success. I just don't look at it that way.

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I had so much anger and judgement towards myself for my work not being up to the standard that I expected it…

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When I'm going through something really difficult, I think it's what made me go to the piano for the first time when…

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One of the beautiful things about music is it gives you an opportunity to learn how to tell the truth, and it's…

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I don't think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we…

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On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock…

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I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

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The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher…

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I love being an American, and it's a beautiful country, but we are a bunch of whack jobs. We have got so…

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Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by…

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I always think that you should never, ever force a producer to do something with a song that they don't think they…

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My personality is a personality where I get really, really nervous and doubtful about almost everything, which is always a work in…

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When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a…

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It's very important for me to do things like talk therapy. That's where you begin to see the walls that your illness…

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I always try and be as positive as I can and give people the benefit of the doubt because, in my own…

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At first, I was using my sister Susan's lyrics, as I could not write myself, only the music. And then one day,…

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What I do is I really enjoy and appreciate the challenge of songwriting and singing and performing and just being really, really…

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To me, I don't care if I co-write or if I write alone. If it's a great song and it makes it…

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I cook stuff that I picked up from my husband's mother. I thought that would be a good way to his heart,…

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If you're going to go the way of 'American Idol,' then you better be able to do what you want musically, because…

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I should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of…

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Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation.

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When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true…

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That's the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like…

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I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it…

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I never want to hear about going to hell if I did something wrong. But I do use Jesus as my curve…

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Sometimes when people ask a lot of me, or they're not liking what I'm turning in, especially when I'm working one on…

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If I don't relate to a song, I won't sing it. The thing is that if I wrote it, I'm always going…

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Fame doesn't matter; people approving of you doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you're in store for something very difficult and…

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If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing…

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Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded,…

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When you love the music that you're going to play, of course you're going to do your best.

— Beth Hart

If I'm writing the music, and I don't feel like its really connecting inside, then I'll know there's no reason to really…

— Beth Hart