A biography for Melody Gardothasn’t been written yet.
“Louis Armstrong was about playing with soul and emotion, not about showing how technically brilliant he was.”
“I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington.”
“I had to learn how to walk three times: every time I learned, I learned wrong.”
“I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around.”
“Not doing music period is the death of a musician.”
“I don't live in fear.”
“I feel like I'm ancient, like two thousand years old.”
“In America we live to work: we work like crazy and I know people like to celebrate but they don't get the opportunities.”
“I live out of my suitcases. It makes for the best aperitif in terms of spice of life.”
“That's my biggest aspiration: to make people happy.”
“I think there's something nice about a distilled sound.”
“I can never express my gratitude enough to the doctor who told me that I needed to turn to music.”
“With someone like Cole Porter, Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, or Bessie Smith, you had people who understood emotion, could translate it into a melodic sensibility, and could express it in a way that unified humanity.”
“I know my mom worked three jobs to pay $300-a-month rent. I know we shared cans of food for dinner - one can, for a grown woman and a little girl.”
“Fear is a useless emotion. It prevents everything from happening. It's like closing every door and every window to your opportunity for surpassing anything in existence.”
“If you listen to a song like 'Sodade' from Caesaria Evoria, eventually you can sing the words just like she does.”
“I was riding my bicycle and I was hit by a Jeep. And the damage that was done to my body was gradually diagnosed, instead of immediately, so the recovery process for me was probably unnecessarily long: It took nearly two years for me to say that I could successfully walk.”
“I'm someone who believes that hearts don't beat voluntarily, they need a reason. If you lack self love or love for others you die.”
“I love how my life is turning out.”