Melody Gardot

Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love

— Melody Gardot

With someone like Cole Porter, Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, or Bessie Smith, you had people who understood emotion, could translate it into…

— Melody Gardot

Music is the universal language; it is the soundtrack to our existence.

— Melody Gardot

I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around.

— Melody Gardot

It's just incredible to be working alongside with the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, sharing the story of his life.

— Melody Gardot

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

— Melody Gardot

Not doing music period is the death of a musician.

— Melody Gardot

Alber Elbaz really understands the female body and his designs are so flattering to the female form.

— Melody Gardot

I mostly wear black with occasional contrast and splashes of colour. I love my curves but I like fitted rather than tight…

— Melody Gardot

I love how my life is turning out.

— Melody Gardot

Do a Christmas record!' NO! Call Michael Buble! I'm not saying there's something wrong with that. But that's not me.

— Melody Gardot

Writing is something I take very seriously.

— Melody Gardot

I'm a free person. I don't want to be tied down.

— Melody Gardot

People can't accept when you change sometimes.

— Melody Gardot

I didn't ask to be a musician, but I see the responsibility of it and I am grateful for it.

— Melody Gardot

I'm someone who believes that hearts don't beat voluntarily, they need a reason. If you lack self love or love for others…

— Melody Gardot

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

— Melody Gardot

I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington.

— Melody Gardot

I find that most of the people I work with had illnesses as children or were extraordinarily shy.

— Melody Gardot

If someone wants to hear me, they can listen.

— Melody Gardot

One of the problems of people who live with pain is that they spend the whole day thinking about it, and it's…

— Melody Gardot

I had short-term memory at zero, so you don't have this problem of worry or anxiety, because you don't remember what you're…

— Melody Gardot

I was bedridden for a long time.

— Melody Gardot

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

— Melody Gardot

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot