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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
People
Seeing
Love People Seeing
React
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I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Exhilarating
Singing
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Mentor
Wonderful
Status
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Ears
Father
Ravel
Ear
Hank
Varied
Williams
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The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Chance
Jazz
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Bob
Disappointing
Dylan
Records
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Cities
Enjoyed
New Stuff
Stuff
Experience City New
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It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Helping
People
Support
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Sad
Comfortable
Embrace
Ideas
Sadness
Life Your More
Life Sad Your
Hang
Let Go
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No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Matter
Memories
Where We Come
Alone Best Always
Contend
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Difficult Situations
Guitar
Intelligent
Intelligent People
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My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Atmosphere
Normal
Parent
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Guitar
Play
Song
Tracy
Admired
Herself
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Jazz
Popular Music
Willingness
Music Always Everything
Chances
Include
Popular
Wonderful Thing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Conscious
Developing
Goal
Singing
Song
Steps
Me Singing Way
Me Way More
Express
Technically
Stylistically
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Bunch
Teenager
Thinking
Me Long People
Me Long Important
Adolescent
Discovered
List
Long List
Ma
Smith
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I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
Madeleine Peyroux / Singer-Songwriter
Extraordinary
Holiday
Jazz
Order
Remains
Song
Voice
Intent
Interpret
Listened
Sing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
New York
Father
New Orleans
Radio
Time Music Me
Collection
Time Music Father
Michael
Jackson
Madonna
Orleans
Passed
Record Collection
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Confidence
Smile
Artist
Columbia
Disillusioned
Massive
Vote
Companies
Operate
Pulled
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Live Life
Needed
Past
Real
Life Time Good
By The Time
Develop
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