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Creativity Quote by Vanessa Paradis

"It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record"

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Ecstasy is doing a lot of work here, and Vanessa Paradis knows it. “Extraordinary, wonderful” is the kind of double-adjective rush you blurt when you’re still stunned by your own trajectory, but the line that lands is the physical image: “three feet off the ground.” It’s modest, not mythic. She’s not floating into some celestial realm; she’s just barely lifted, a measurable, almost cute distance from ordinary life. That choice keeps the sentiment from turning into diva grandiosity. It reads like someone trying to stay believable while admitting she’s been high on momentum for years.

The context matters: Paradis isn’t just any singer describing a debut. She was a teenage breakout in late-’80s France, a pop phenomenon shaped quickly by industry machinery, tabloid fascination, and later the high-gloss international ecosystem of fashion and celebrity. “Since I made that first record” compresses all of that into one causal switch: before the record, gravity; after it, perpetual suspension. The subtext is both gratitude and self-protection. She frames fame as a sustained feeling rather than a set of deals, pressures, or compromises. That’s a neat rhetorical dodge, but also a real artist’s shorthand for a career where the first public artifact becomes your origin story forever.

Intent-wise, it’s a way to narrate success as wonder instead of calculation: a charm offensive that preserves her as the amazed girl who made a record, even after the world turned her into a brand.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Paradis, Vanessa. (2026, January 16). It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-extraordinary-wonderful-ive-been-135428/

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Paradis, Vanessa. "It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-extraordinary-wonderful-ive-been-135428/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-extraordinary-wonderful-ive-been-135428/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Vanessa Paradis (born December 22, 1972) is a Musician from France.

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