Eddi Quotes & Sayings

A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working? — Eddi Reader

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly. — Eddi Reader

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer. — Eddi Reader

Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for. — Eddi Reader

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper. — Eddi Reader

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them. — Sophie Arnould

Bastard could hold onto a grudge like he had Superglue hands. — K.A. Mitchell

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction. — Bob Woodward

FLYING DOWN SUNSET SMOKING CRACK
TRANSVESTITE IN THE FRONT
EDDI MURPHY IN THE BACK
MOP HAD ME GRINDY AND GRIDDY
MARILYN MANSON, I DYED MY HAIR BLUE
AND GREW SOME TITTIES — Bizarre

'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones. — Eddi Reader

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them. — Ian Hart

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me. — Eddi Reader

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. — Wassily Kandinsky

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish. — Eddi Reader

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way. — Eddi Reader

And so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. — Alice Hoffman

Outrage steamed her brain. "I've waited three days... Do you know what day it is?"
He gave a one-sided shrug, his massive shoulder muscles shifting. "Who has time to check the calendar when people are shooting at you and snakes are biting you in the ass? — Dana Marton

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art. — Eddi Reader

It's so easy to judge things we don't understand. — ALY BELLE

How old are you?'
The question startled him. 'Earth and Air. There are times you are no more comfortable a companion than I am. The answer to that serves no conceivable purpose, and I refuse to give it to you.'
When I was a kid I read Black Beauty. There were horse-drawn cabs in that. Are you that old?'
Older, older, older. I shall not tell you, so you may as well leave off, my primrose.'
She snorted. 'I think that means I should give up. You've started sweet-talking.'
I am torn,' the phouka said, grinning, 'between responding, 'Oh, absolutely!' and 'What do you mean, started?' He grabbed her hand, dropped a kiss on the knuckles, and loped across the street. Eddi felt the touch of his mouth on her hand for an inexplicably long time. — Emma Bull

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life. — Eddi Reader

With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal. — Mac Miller

People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities. — Eddi Reader

And it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces. — Charles Dickens

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got. — Eddi Reader