Alison Moyet
Alison Moyet
Geneviève Alison Jane Moyetis an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy contralto voice. She came to prominence as half of the duo Yazoo and since has mainly worked as a solo artist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBlues Singer
Date of Birth18 June 1961
Alison Moyet quotes about
records growing want
When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
good needed opportunity prove record windows
As you get older, your windows of opportunity close. I needed to make a record once and for all that could prove I was a good artist.
album depeche greater recorded sound time together
Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.
album might produce record sang
It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don't think it's happened yet. There's always a possibility with each album that I might not record again, and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.
coming companies entertain few record
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
british-musician french growing language lots school words
As I was growing up, French was the language in the house, so when I started school there were lots of words I didn't know in English.
stars sheep black
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
our-generation interesting people
It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.
good-luck wave easy
It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
parent single-parent parenthood
I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.
thinking purpose world
I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots...
men voice should
The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.
giving faces just-being
I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.
nice thinking artist
Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.