Nanci Griffith Quotes

#1. Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. If you watch a scary movie together, then the scariness is cut in half!

Hidekaz Himaruya

#3. I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Nanci Griffith

#4. I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.

Shayne Ward

#5. Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Nanci Griffith

#6. Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Nanci Griffith

#7. Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There

Mortimer J. Adler

#8. We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

Rudyard Kipling

#9. I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view ... and things that informed me.

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#10. Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Nanci Griffith

#11. I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Nanci Griffith

#12. Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

David Cronenberg

#14. It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#15. Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

Nanci Griffith

#16. I've always been a very prolific writer.

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#17. It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Nanci Griffith

#18. I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

Nanci Griffith