Quotes by Beth Hart - Page 2

Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.
Beth Hart /
Depression
Relief
Scared
Me Way Find
Me Way Everything
Easily
Figure
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My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.
Beth Hart /
Courageous
Telling The Truth
Song Writing
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My story is how to have a life while dealing with mental illness, and I've had a life. I've been blessed. It's been a different kind of life than what I planned on, but it's been a good life nonetheless.
Beth Hart /
Good Life
Illness
Mental Illness
Life Good Good Life
Different Kind
Nonetheless
Planned
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I'd be a liar if I said I didn't care what people think, but I would rather have less people who like or approve of me for who I really am than a bunch more people who like or approve me for what I'm not.
Beth Hart /
Bunch
Approve
Me Care People
Liar
More People
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I love 'Fire On The Floor.' It's just smouldering. I think it's gonna be a fantastic piece to perform live. It's filled with passion. It's about when someone you know is so bad for you, but you can't help it.
Beth Hart /
Fantastic
Filled
Passion
Perform
Piece
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There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.
Beth Hart /
Perceive
Weak
Business People Way
Business Your Important
Attached
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'Better Than Home,' the song, is about getting out of your hiding place and having the courage to live as loud as possible. It is about feeling the life that has been given and has been waiting for you all along.
Beth Hart /
Hiding
Loud
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The only thing as a kid that really mattered to me was that I wouldn't quit. When I say 'quit,' I mean you wake up, you go to the piano, you go to whatever instrument, and you work at learning how to tell the truth.
Beth Hart /
Instrument
Mattered
Quit
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There is something about live albums that I enjoy so much more than studio albums from all of my favorite artists. When I am listening to them live, I get to connect so much more to their truth than in studio albums.
Beth Hart /
Albums
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I tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you write, the better chance you're going to come up with a collection of stuff that is going to work together.
Beth Hart /
Collection
Better Chance
Work Together
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I always think that you should never, ever force a producer to do something with a song that they don't think they can do something fantastic with, I think it's a stupid idea to force it, even if you think it's your best song.
Beth Hart /
Producer
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I think that, being on the road, you've got your family with you, so there's no way that you can have a closer feeling to a group of people that you love than when you sit down and have a dinner or a lunch or a breakfast together.
Beth Hart /
Breakfast
Lunch
Love Family Together
Closer
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I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me... um... a collection of Beethoven when I was a little girl because I became very addicted to his music. It might have been piano sonatas.
Beth Hart /
No Idea
Mom Music Me
Collection
Beethoven
Music Mom Me
Little Girl
Um
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I always feel like you never know: sometimes you can put out work that you feel is really strong, and other times, you can put out work you think is less strong, and people react to it, so it's kinda like in the eye of the beholder!
Beth Hart /
Beholder
Eye Of The Beholder
Work Always People
Work People Sometimes
React
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I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.
Beth Hart /
Different Cultures
Life Love Food
Cultures
Different People
Perspectives
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It's very important for me to do things like talk therapy. That's where you begin to see the walls that your illness has put up as a way to protect yourself... but of course, those walls also keep us from getting to the truth of things.
Beth Hart /
Illness
Protect
Therapy
Begin
Truth Yourself Your
Walls
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It's really hard to do, but I think it's an important thing for, no matter what type of artist you are, to trust that the reason why you are given the love of being artistic is just to make you happy - it's not to make you rich and famous.
Beth Hart /
Artistic
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I'm a Bipolar 1, Rapid Cycler. So really easily, if I'm around people that are sick and are not medicated, and there's a lot of people going to AA that should be medicated that are really, truly mentally ill, then I end up being triggered.
Beth Hart /
Bipolar
Ill
Sick
Mentally
Easily
Rapid
Truly
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I got into cello in the fourth grade, and I played that for years. I adored playing it. I got an opera coach when I was 12 because I really wanted to learn how to sing properly. The only proper way to sing, I thought at that age, was opera.
Beth Hart /
Fourth
Opera
Adored
Cello
Coach
Grade
Proper
Sing
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What I look at, success is about really being grateful. You wake up in the morning, and you're thankful that you could breathe because it's a beautiful planet we live on, and I know there is a lot of struggle and pain, but there is more joy.
Beth Hart /
Thankful
Breathe
Grateful
Joy
Pain
Struggle
Wake Up
Could
Planet
Success Is
Wake
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When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse.
Beth Hart /
Nightmare
Getting Better
Little Girl
Overnight
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Etta James takes credit for writing some of the lyrics on 'I'd Rather Go Blind,' which I think are some of the most phenomenal lyrics I've ever heard. There's arguments now about who wrote it, but she always takes credit for it in her live performances.
Beth Hart /
Blind
Phenomenal
James
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I really love Dinah Washington and anything live from her - she had some of the greatest jazz musicians in the whole world, and sometimes she would be with a big band, and sometimes she'd just be on stage with a muted trumpet, upright bass, and a piano.
Beth Hart /
Bass
Big Band
Trumpet
Jazz Musicians
Just Be
Muted
Upright
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If I love Etta James, it's not just the voice, and it's not just the song, but it's the energy that connects me to her, so if she is strong, I can be strong, too, and if she is sad, I know I am not alone, or if she is joyous, I can connect with that joy.
Beth Hart /
Sad
Alone
Energy
Joy
Song
Strong
Voice
Be Strong
Connect
James
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So many people that I've wanted to work with have died. I was so crazy in love with Amy Winehouse. When she died, I felt like I lost my sister all over again. I couldn't stop crying for weeks and weeks! It was horrible! She was so wonderful and so talented.
Beth Hart /
Sister
Amy
Died
Horrible
Wonderful
Weeks
Crying
Talented
So Many People
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I think that anytime that you can open your eyes and see all that you have and all that you've been blessed with, it's the greatest way to connect you with God, just being grateful rather than always wanting more, wanting to be different, wanting to be better.
Beth Hart /
Blessed
Grateful
Greatest
Anytime
Be Different
Open
God Better Always
Connect
Eyes
Open Your Eyes
Rather
Wanting
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That would be something I would stress the most to any artist - is, number one, don't ever allow, you know, success or whatever you want to call it to determine your worth as an artist or as a person. That's number one. And number two, do it because you love it.
Beth Hart /
Determine
Stress
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Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen. I never got into any of his other music, but that song, to this day, is in my top three lyrical masterpieces of all time.
Beth Hart /
Affected
Lyrical
Springsteen
Thunder
Time Music Me
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Catalogue
Masterpieces
Road
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What I do is I really enjoy and appreciate the challenge of songwriting and singing and performing and just being really, really grateful at all times. Also, I have no fear or problems with saying no and setting boundaries, you know, with the label, with my management.
Beth Hart /
Appreciate
Boundaries
Enjoy
Grateful
Management
No Fear
Performing
Setting
Singing
Songwriting
Challenge
Times
Label
Problems
Saying
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I worked with Mrs. Davis for four years, and then she realized, as the material started getting harder, that I had never learned to read. I was just listening as she'd play the song, and I'd play it back. When that happened, she got very upset and stopped being my teacher.
Beth Hart /
Upset
Davis
Mrs
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I guess it's about getting older. I know that I'm going to lose people that I love - I'm going to die myself - so everything seems to be getting somehow sweet and more important and more special and more humbling and more challenging and more terrifying all at the same time.
Beth Hart /
Getting Older
Humbling
Important
Seems
Special
Sweet
Die
Love Time Myself
Myself
Same
Challenging
Getting
Older
Guess
Lose
Terrifying
Same Time
Somehow
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As a kid, I hated home, and I just wanted so much to learn or do something that could take me away and keep me away forever. And then I got blessed to get to make music and meet people who wanted to work with me. And then, the next thing I knew, I was on the road, and I was gone.
Beth Hart /
Work Home Music
Next Thing
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At first, I was using my sister Susan's lyrics, as I could not write myself, only the music. And then one day, she and I had a fight, and she threatened to take away the lyrics from all the songs that I put the lyrics to, so it was that day that I began writing my first lyric to the music.
Beth Hart /
Threatened
Lyric
Susan
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I really cherish my time at home. As you know, I love my husband so much, but he's always doing everything for me out here to keep me rolling forward. But I don't get to do near enough for him. So when I'm at home, I like to cook for him and do some gardening - all that wife-y kinda stuff, you know?
Beth Hart /
Cherish
Husband
My Time
Rolling
Love Time Home
Cook
Near
Out Here
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I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what type of medium they are using - whether it be from painting to acting to dancing, songwriting, or anything like that - I believe the desire is to get to the truth, and I think it's really hard to tell the truth.
Beth Hart /
Songwriting
Medium
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