#me

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. ↗

— William Petty

#demonstration #hope #i #living #man

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

#difficult #friends #guitar #had #i

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

#become #billie #billie holiday #extraordinary #holiday

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

#become #conscious #developing #express #goal

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

— Madeleine Peyroux

#someone #status #wonderful #work

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

#father #full #i #jackson #kinds

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

#came #guitar #her #herself #i

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

#always #best #come #contend #going

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

#amount #artists #back #columbia #companies

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#along #am #dark #dark side #everything