Madeleine Peyroux quote: "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."

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of pe...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

I love playing to people and seeing them react.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk ...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of ...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

Weary Blues.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I foun...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial sup...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

Things changed so quickly. The Atlantic jazz department just went from under us.
MADELEINE PEYROUX

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artist...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

It's work. I recognize that it's work, and it can be hard work, so making it a commodity is not so h...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the ra...
MADELEINE PEYROUX

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, co...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferab...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networki...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing inn...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge differen...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but n...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I'm a problem-solver.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hel...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise you...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestin...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

It isn't easy, it does take an incredible amount of discipline, you don't just write just when you f...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Roses and violets from summer gardens, sun-drenched Sicilian lemons squeezed of their juice and ming...
LAURA MADELEINE

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

This is the irrational season
Where love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with rea...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Mich...
MADELEINE STOWE

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highwa...
MADELEINE STOWE

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initiall...
MADELEINE STOWE

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of frien...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks th...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq'...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable....
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happe...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember R...
MADELEINE STOWE

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood u...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all s...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there mi...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Co...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerabl...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, pro...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the o...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our h...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his el...
MADELEINE STOWE

I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectf...
MADELEINE STOWE

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will c...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of ch...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I mean at the moment, Kosovo is practically depopulated of Albanians, and that is not what we think ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

These two countries are cheek-by-jowl,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

When I took this job I had those instincts surgically removed, ... We believe in bipartisan foreign ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I have a lot of different pins ... and it all kind of started as a joke, ... I do like jewelry, but ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to s...
MADELEINE STOWE

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flun...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundra...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cr...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I believe the allegations are completely untrue,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

This dudes nuttier than squirrel shit."

-Ty Henderson
MADELEINE URBAN

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate i...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what y...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the electio...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I grab a knife and hide, I wanna stop my life and die. But instead i just close my eyes, reach out m...
MADELEINE KUSMITCH

We have, in fact, gained because Saddam Hussein has reversed his course
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Words here are no substitute for action in the region, ... encourages extremism and diverts attentio...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

We cannot have our relationship with China held hostage to any single issue. ... This is not a one-i...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

A Wrinkle in Time,
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely an...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married [...]. The iron is less dangerous.
MADELEINE URBAN

He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without ...
MADELEINE STOWE

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a gre...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
MADELEINE STOWE

The (Colombian) government's ambitious eradication campaign, to date, has met with heavy resistance ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I plan my escape by making a map in the stars. But no matter where i go i can't hide my scars. I kee...
MADELEINE KUSMITCH

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

This is not personal, this is business,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Maybe I was just the handmaiden,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

On Taiwan, I reiterated our strong commitment to a 'one China' policy, to the importance of direct d...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

So many, so loved, have been lost.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

They are basically not engaging at all on a crucial portion of the agreement, the military portion, ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I must say I am depressed about the way that that has been going on, ... We will continue to watch t...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I am very glad we had the meeting,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

For the Israelis, this means withdrawing their forces to positions prior to the onset of the crisis,...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

These are unlikely subjects for a one-day miracle, ... but the stakes are high and we are determined...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I know that he [Clinton] is determined and has the judgment and the ability to be a president that d...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

We must each meet our responsibilities to eliminate threats, reduce tension, build confidence and ex...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

No doubt the president will take the opportunity to try to talk to him about working together on som...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

No proof, no connection.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

will have no choice but to take strong measures.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The very promise of it (membership) has given the nations of central and Eastern Europe an incentive...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

seize this opportunity to achieve an interim settlement agreement in Kosovo.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tal...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I go determined that those responsible for these cowardly crimes will be held accountable. I go secu...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

We welcome today's step forward,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I assure you if we decide to use force, Russia will not veto it.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The Berlin Wall crumbled, Politburos resigned and governments vanished overnight. Half a million Cze...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Both our governments believe that a permanent settlement must ensure real security for Israel and re...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

We believe that it is important for American travelers to be very vigilant when they are abroad and ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

They were casualties of a new kind of confrontation that looms as the new century begins,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Engagement does not mean endorsement,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

You are ruin and chaos to them, but you are lovely to my eye.'
'You're brave or daft, then,' sh...
MADELEINE ROUX

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

As soon as he was out of sight, Gui pulled the macaron mixture towards him, and took a deep breath. ...
LAURA MADELEINE

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
MADELEINE L’ENGLE

I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in t...
MADELEINE L’ENGLE

While the summit was hopeful, not all the issues have been resolved,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Saddam Hussein is a congenital liar, and he cheats and he steals and he cannot be allowed to defy th...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

We want to avoid anything that looks like there is a partition,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it’s
you and me and Renny and Ted with n...
MADELEINE ROUX

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intol...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this und...
MADELEINE BOURDOUXHE

We're not into endless extensions,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I bring you very warm personal greetings from President Clinton, and he is very much looking forward...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I actually pretended to be a journalist, ... John's publicist was very nice, but he did say, 'John i...
MADELEINE STOWE

He's so nice,
MADELEINE STOWE

He tended to the ovens, but was allowed to help the other chefs for a few hours, warming butter and ...
LAURA MADELEINE

I think it would be a genuine mistake if the focus today was on confrontation without thinking of th...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as wri...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry pe...
MADELEINE STOWE

I made it very clear that there were eight weeks (before the summit and) there had to be a speeding ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

As I have said, as President Clinton has said, he is prepared to have such a summit, but we have to ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I contin...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Her hands were broad and strong; the true pianist's sledgehammer hands, they had been called. They s...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

He was jovial and forthcoming, and interested and different from what we had all been led to believe...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I am not prepared to go shuttling back and forth, ... I think that in contrast to other periods of A...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The things you experience," she continued, "are written on your cells as memories and patterns, whic...
MADELEINE THIEN

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

If the issues are resolved, ... President Clinton is prepared to invite the parties to launch accele...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

The Red Cross is made up of volunteers. We have a meager staff, but the volunteers who pitch in when...
MADELEINE GASDIK

determined to do the right thing, but in a pragmatic way. We defended human rights.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, &...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

cease long-range missile development, production and its export program.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

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.

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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.

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