"I think I was probably an early teenager……" — Madeleine Peyroux
"I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent."
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33 Quotes by Madeleine Peyroux
Madeleine Peyroux has 33 quotes on this site.
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I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of…
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it…
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I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz…
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Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk…
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by…
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio…
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my…
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always…
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Unknown Author
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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