Phoebe Snow quotes

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered. (Phoebe Snow)

I faded away for a while out of necessity.

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It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

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I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

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With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.

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I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

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The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.

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The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

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If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

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I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

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Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was. (Phoebe Snow)

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

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I lost interest in being in the public eye.

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There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

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There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.

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The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

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My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

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A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

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