Madeleine Peyroux Quotes

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment.

The Doors were never that good as musicians.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd', and instead we got a German shepherd.

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

You're only as good as your last album.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.