Peyroux Quotes & Sayings

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

If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.
Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.
It's meant to be hard. — Pleasefindthis

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature. — Patricia Moyes

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone! — Madeleine Peyroux

Maybe Violet was stricken with colorblindness, the willful inability to distinguish between white and any other color, the only infirmity Americans wished for themselves. But — Viet Thanh Nguyen

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere. — Madeleine Peyroux

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. — Madeleine Peyroux

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to. — Madeleine Peyroux

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux

It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now. — 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. — Madeleine Peyroux

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life. — Madeleine Peyroux

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. — Madeleine Peyroux

My mother looked at my image as if she were looking at a wicked little girl come to scornfully show herself to her poor mother. There was love in her look, but with such jealousy mixed in that the feelings became quickly slurred. It was what my mother gave me, so I took it and I gave it back; I reveled in her jealousy as she reveled in my vanity. Reveling and rageful, we went between sleep and dreams right there in the dining room. Silent and still, we attacked each other like animals. — Mary Gaitskill

I love playing to people and seeing them react. — Madeleine Peyroux

Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it's hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life? — David Emerald Womeldorff

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. — Louis Kronenberger

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by. — Madeleine Peyroux

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [ ... ] True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine. — E. O. Wilson

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 Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back. — Madeleine Peyroux

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

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way. — Madeleine Peyroux

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time. — Elisha Cuthbert

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. — 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 admired her for that. — Madeleine Peyroux

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. — Madeleine Peyroux

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away. — Bill Gates

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. — Madeleine Peyroux

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism . — Richard Dawkins