--- title: "4 Tracey Thorn Quotes - Famous Singer" description: "British singer (born 1962)... | Tracey Thorn is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is best known as a member of the duo Everything but the G..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/tracey-thorn-69921_autobiography_too-embarrassed-even-to-try-as-long-as-e_521167.jpg" --- # Tracey Thorn (1962) Singer **4** quotes in **27** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Tracey Thorn is a singer. ## Quick Facts About Tracey Thorn Born September 26, 1962 Profession Singer ## About Tracey Thorn British singer (born 1962)... \| Tracey Thorn is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl, active from 1982 to 2000, and again from 2022. She was in the band Marine Girls from 1980 to 1983. She has, at several junctures of her career, recorded and released albums as ## Quotes by Tracey Thorn > [“Too embarrassed even to try as long as everyone was looking at me, I made what was probably a fairly unique request.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracey-thorn/too-embarrassed-even-to-try-as-long-as-everyone-was-looking-at-me-i/) [Tracey Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracey-thorn/) [Autobiography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autobiography/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/tracey-thorn-69921_autobiography_too-embarrassed-even-to-try-as-long-as-e_521167.jpg) > [I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracey-thorn/i-think-perhaps-people-don-t-dig-deep-enough-when-they-re-looking-for/) [Tracey Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracey-thorn/) [Covered](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/covered/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/tracey-thorn-69921_covered_i-think-perhaps-people-don-t-dig-deep-en_744820.jpg) > [To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracey-thorn/to-actually-get-together-and-make-a-band-record-feels-like-a-bit-of-a/) [Tracey Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracey-thorn/) [Band](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/band/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29c/tracey-thorn-69921_band_to-actually-get-together-and-make-a-band_1909120.jpg) > [Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracey-thorn/obviously-the-trouble-with-having-a-hit-with-something-like-a-cover/) [Tracey Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracey-thorn/) [Attract](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attract/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/069/tracey-thorn-69921_ballads_obviously-the-trouble-with-having-a-hit_2250877.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracey-thorn/#itemlist", "name": "Tracey Thorn Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Too embarrassed even to try as long as everyone was looking at me, I made what was probably a fairly unique request. ‘Um, I’ll have a go. But I can’t do it if you’re all looking at me. Can I go inside the wardrobe and sing from there?’ The others looked at me strangely, possibly beginning to worry about the apparent absence of any stage personality in this girl they had just recruited, but to their credit they agreed, without killing themselves laughing, and so in I went. From inside my hidey-hole I sang David Bowie’s ‘Rebel Rebel’. I emerged to a very positive response, the others all declaring that I sounded like Siouxsie Sioux – I was trying very hard to – and while I was quite pleased with myself, I wasn’t sure that I would be able to do it in front of an audience. 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