Sticks and stones Quote by Madeleine Peyroux

Let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone. Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon. Show me slowly what…

— Madeleine Peyroux

Dance me to the end of love...

— Madeleine Peyroux

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so…

— Madeleine Peyroux

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

— Madeleine Peyroux

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought…

— Madeleine Peyroux

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin. Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in. Lift me like an olive…

— Madeleine Peyroux

People you've been before. That you don't want around anymore. That push and shove and won't bend to your will. I'll keep them still...

— Madeleine Peyroux

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

— Madeleine Peyroux

Drink up, baby. Stay up all night. Things you could do. You won't but you might.

— Madeleine Peyroux

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

— Madeleine Peyroux

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to…

— Madeleine Peyroux

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

— Madeleine Peyroux