Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I’ve married someone from Vermont, so it’s an expression I kept hearing, and I’m like, ‘What is that? That’s just so beautiful.’ I like the idea it’s the very, very first murmurings of spring. Beth Orton Read Quote
I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that’s what I do. Beth Orton Read Quote
Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it’s a loop or a drum, it’s about what suits the song. It’s using what’s within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don’t know if I always get it right, because I don’t know every sound yet. Beth Orton Read Quote
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? Beth Orton Read Quote
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. Beth Orton Read Quote
I’m coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, ‘You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.’ Beth Orton Read Quote
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. Beth Orton Read Quote
