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Beth Orton is a British singer-songwriter born on December 14, 1970. Her musical style blends folk, electronic, and pop elements, and she is known for her distinctive voice and heartfelt lyrics. Orton's music career began in the 1990s, and she has gained widespread recognition in the music industry with her unique sound and emotional songwriting.

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“I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.”

Knows Feels Water Love Is Sea Very Good Fishes Bored Swimming Get Real Feels Right I Love Swimming Sunbathing

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“I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.”

People Poverty Comfortable

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“Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.”

Thinking Kind Found Havens Luxury

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“My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.”

Said Inspiration Next Managers

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“I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.”

Feelings Happens Guitar Mess Melody

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“When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.”

Feels Satisfied Make Sense Plugging In

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“I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.”

Writing Process My Own Taught Writing Process Scratches Guitarist

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“I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.”

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“I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.”

Trying Brother Female Harder Insecure Looking Good Intimidating Older Brother

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“I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.”

Born Cities Grew Grew Up Moved London Farms Pigs Thirteen Norfolk Norwich

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“Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.”

Light Sun Fields Kissing Summer Evening Wheat Haze Wheat Fields

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“Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.”

Way Want Ends Effort Somewhere Else Norfolk

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“When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.”

Made Young Used Grows Hours Frogs Ponds Spawn

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“My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.”

Book Beautiful Remember Forever Dad Garden Remains My Dad Smell Chemistry Shed Ever After

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“At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.”

Age Joy Records Ten Kissing Sitting My Friends Drinking Stealing Elders Sibling Graveyard Cider

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“I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.”

Fall Imagine Tree Sky Walking Mirrors Height Stairs

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“One time I completely thought I'd turned into a werewolf and was sure I could see hairs sprouting from my face. At those times I'd suddenly go very quiet and not talk to anyone, stunned from the developments, being a werewolf and all.”

Faces Hair Development Quiet One Time Werewolf Stunned

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“I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus's disciples and I used to show them modern life - how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn't change my feelings about the Bible jinx.”

Shows Feelings Running Used Jesus Modern Cold Couple Hot Luck Scared Disciple Modern Life Alright Bad Luck Hot And Cold Jinx

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“I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.”

Thinking Want Ideas Negative Therapy Songwriting Songwriters Connotation Foreground

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“I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.”

Want Stories Painting Universal Painter Justify Life Story

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“To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.”

I Can Situation Essence Blow Redemption Poison Songwriting Pollen

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“The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.”

Grief Losing Useless Dna Blokes Losing Myself

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“Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.”

Kids Loses Hurt Therapy Nightmare

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“When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!”

People Knows Should Writing Firsts Said Play Know How Careful Be Careful

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“I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.”

People Way Children I Can Helping Light Found Honestly Helping Others Therapy Nightmare Spells

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“You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.”

Way Together Beautiful Grows Musician Working Together

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“The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.”

Light Social Couple Studios Managers Smoking Marijuana Harper

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“From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.”

Humans Wanted Elements Dance Music

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“Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.”

Trying Heaven Our Lives Prospects Blown Away

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“I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.”

Thinking Men Believe Sometimes Known Trouble Worst Don't Believe Compliment

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“I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.”

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“The way I write, words can means lots of different things.”

Way Writing Mean Different Different Things

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“We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?”

Littles Hands Generations Materials Evolution Right Now Ants Glowing

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About the Author

Born: December 14, 1970
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 33

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