Words matter. These are the best Phoebe Snow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I lost interest in being in the public eye.
I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
I’m not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer – with some rock, and song hooks.
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.
Sometimes when you’re overwhelmed by a situation – when you’re in the darkest of darkness – that’s when your priorities are reordered.
All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn’t stand a challenge… I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn’t get involved or fight back.
Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don’t give me ‘boogie’!
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.
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, ‘Poetry Man’ wouldn’t have been my first choice.
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.
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.
It’s no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.
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.
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.
I realized that I’ve lived half my life already, and it’s time to believe in – and stand up for – myself.
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.
I faded away for a while out of necessity.
I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I’m going to try.
I’ve sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.
The most common misconception about me is that I’m basically a jazz singer.
