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Top 30 Beth Orton Quotes (2025 Update)

Beth Orton Quote: “Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.”

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

Beth Orton Quote: “I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.”

2. “I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Beth Orton 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.”

5. “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 Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “Even when I haven’t had money, I found money to travel. It’s a luxury that’s a kind of necessity, I think.”

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

Beth Orton 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?”

11. “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 Quote: “I’m not comfortable holidaying in other people’s poverty.”

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

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “When I’m on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.”

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

Beth Orton 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.”

15. “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 Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.”

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

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

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

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.”

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

Beth Orton Quote: “The way I write, words can means lots of different things.”

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

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.”

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

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

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

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

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

Beth Orton Quote: “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!”

31. “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!”

Beth Orton Quote: “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.”

32. “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.”

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