Madeleine Peyroux Quotes

"I love playing to people and seeing them react."
- Madeleine Peyroux
(Related: Love, People)

"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
(Related: Life, Time, Deep, Past, Trouble, Want)

"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
(Related: Goal, Singing, Songs, Want)

"It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status."
- Madeleine Peyroux
(Related: Work)

"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
(Related: Music, Jazz, Popular)

"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
- Madeleine Peyroux
(Related: Father)

"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
(Related: Music, Time, Father)

"Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff."
- Madeleine Peyroux
(Related: Experience)

"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
(Related: Artists, Confidence, Nothing, Talk, Vote)