Top 45 Beth Hart Quotes

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.

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.

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.

That’s the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like that.

If I’m writing the music, and I don’t feel like its really connecting inside, then I’ll know there’s no reason to really put a lyric on it; it’s a waste, and I’ll throw it.

The piano represents home to me. It represents a place where I can heal – the sound of it, the feel of it, the way it looks.

I learned about forgiveness, and I’ve reached out to others to make amends.

I always kind of say to people, don’t believe the hype. You are never as good as what they say; you are never as bad, and remember that you do it just to make you happy and to enjoy it.

I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.

Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation.

‘I’d Rather Go Blind’ was a song I did on an album with Joe Bonamassa called ‘Don’t Explain,’ and I’ve always been such a huge, huge Etta James fan.

I don’t think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we have a lot to learn.

If you’re going to go the way of ‘American Idol,’ then you better be able to do what you want musically, because just going for the fame will only keep you happy for so long.

‘St. Teresa’ is one of my favorites. It reminds me of the importance of grace.

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.

I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma.

When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that’s where my true voice is.

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.

I’m such an emotional performer, and my head is always like a rollercoaster, so if I’m in a good place and feeling grateful, that’s when I notice that my shows come across as a lot more positive.

I know what makes me connect to my music – it is knowing that I am not alone in my feelings and my thoughts.

‘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.

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.

We all have our ups and our downs, and it’s consistent throughout all of our lives. It’s not a movie: you don’t get to a point where, suddenly, you’re free forever – it’s life.

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.

If you work hard at something, you’re going to find a way that you can live in this life, no matter what your handicaps are.

,what saved my life was my husband. He nursed me back to health, and he continues to do that to this day. It’s not easy to be married and to have a relationship with someone with mental illness.

I don’t ever go and write music for an album. That’s not something I do. I don’t go and write music for an audience or a career; I don’t do that at all. I write basically all the time. I’m addicted to it.

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!

With songs, it doesn’t matter what song it is; every time I go out and perform it, it’s like the first time I’m performing it, the first time I wrote it. If it’s not, then I’m not going to do it that night.

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.

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.

Fame doesn’t matter; people approving of you doesn’t matter. And if it does matter, you’re in store for something very difficult and painful.

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.

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.

I never want to hear about going to hell if I did something wrong. But I do use Jesus as my curve point, and I think of his teachings when it comes to how I want to treat people.

Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn’t concentrate, so although I’d feel very creative, I could never really finish a piece of work because my mind was moving so fast.

I’m not a doctor, but I would assume that anything that you’re doing that’s harming you, and you can’t stop doing it, is a sign of mental illness.

The audiences are really great. I really love it over there. I love Europe, period. Oh my God, all the architecture and all the history and just to the way people think and live is so different.

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.

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.

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.

I had so much anger and judgement towards myself for my work not being up to the standard that I expected it to be, so I wouldn’t allow myself to complete anything.

I’ve been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

I’d been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal – like, never.

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.