Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Fraser

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish musician Elizabeth Fraser.

Last updated on November 10, 2024.

Elizabeth Davidson Fraser, is a Scottish singer, songwriter and musician. Hailing from Grangemouth, Scotland, she is best known as the vocalist for the pioneering dream pop band Cocteau Twins who achieved international success primarily during the mid–1980s until early 1990. Their studio albums Victorialand (1986) and Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) both reached the top ten of the UK Album Charts, as well as other albums including Blue Bell Knoll (1988), Four-Calendar Café (1993) and Milk & Kisses (1996) charing on the Billboard 200 album charts in the United States as well as the top 20 in the UK. She also performed as part of the 4AD group This Mortal Coil, including the successful 1983 single "Song to the Siren", and as a guest with Massive Attack on their 1998 single "Teardrop".

Scottish - Musician | Born: August 29, 1963

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I was very worried about being unattractive because I think I look quite masculine. Sometimes I feel more masculine than feminine and I don't like it.

Elizabeth Fraser

I've always had a thing about sevens.

Elizabeth Fraser

I think basically we know how stupid we are, that's why we don't do interviews.

Elizabeth Fraser

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

Elizabeth Fraser

I'm very perfectionist.

Elizabeth Fraser

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

Elizabeth Fraser

I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings. They're not proper. Although I've got a great dictionary of them. It's like the Cockney rhyming slang or something.

Elizabeth Fraser

I want to get better and take more risks. I need to sing with other people. I need to access parts of me that aren't being accessed in the Cocteau Twins.

Elizabeth Fraser

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

Elizabeth Fraser

I've never had a highly developed sense of being female. The sexuality has either been stopped, or else it's been an exaggerated P J Harvey kind of sexuality.

Elizabeth Fraser

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

Elizabeth Fraser

We make pretty uninteresting reading, I suppose. I mean, we're just another group making records, aren't we?

Elizabeth Fraser

I can't act. I can't lie.

Elizabeth Fraser

The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the lyrics. I listen to the whole thing and it may be five or six days before I even realize what the song's about.

Elizabeth Fraser

I had always thought of myself as a sanguine person, quite light and airy. But for a long while, no one could have possibly made me laugh or smile. It was awful.

Elizabeth Fraser

I was very dreamy. Insular. I'm always amazed I survived adolescence at all and wasn't squashed flat by a juggernaut. Gaping, I think was my main skill. Staring out of the window.

Elizabeth Fraser

Periodically, my mind is blown and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny.

Elizabeth Fraser

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

Elizabeth Fraser