Wigmore Quotes

#1. The food that you eat can either be the safest and most powerful medicine or the slowest form of poison. - Ann Wigmore

Mindy Pelz

#2. I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

Gin Wigmore

#3. I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Gin Wigmore

#4. The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.

John Henry Wigmore

#5. I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.

Gin Wigmore

#6. After you have been eating greens for 6 months, you will feel that something is missing unless you have them each day.

Ann Wigmore

#7. When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.

Gin Wigmore

#8. I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.

Gin Wigmore

#9. When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in a red sports car.

Gin Wigmore

#10. Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.

John Henry Wigmore

#11. You can't go round looking like a rag.

Gin Wigmore

#12. Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Gin Wigmore

#13. I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.

Gin Wigmore

#14. I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.

Gin Wigmore

#15. No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.

Gin Wigmore

#16. I'm just going to tour; that's the best way for people to get to know me. Focusing on the international stuff and breaking in to the States and U.K.

Gin Wigmore

#17. I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gin Wigmore

#18. It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Gin Wigmore

#19. Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.

Ann Wigmore

#20. I love the energy in the U.S., you know. Everyone is really psyched. You feel really privileged to be there.

Gin Wigmore

#21. The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

Gin Wigmore

#22. I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

Gin Wigmore

#23. You break up, and you say something pathetic, or you don't even speak at all when someone's telling you they don't love you anymore. But then you think about it five minutes later, and you have all these great comebacks!

Gin Wigmore

#24. I'm a big believer that when we put so much into our jobs - and everyone does - you deserve to be get paid for it instead of doing a gig and then having to work in a bar for eight hours.

Gin Wigmore

#25. Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

John Henry Wigmore

#26. I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

Gin Wigmore

#27. I don't think I'm a diva.

Gin Wigmore

#28. I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Gin Wigmore

#29. My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big supporter. All I wanted to do was write a song about him and, you know, when something's too fresh, you can't quite word it.

Gin Wigmore

#30. That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

Gin Wigmore

#31. Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.

John Henry Wigmore

#32. When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity, wisdom, and compassion.

Ann Wigmore

#33. I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.

Gin Wigmore

#34. People might think I'm a bit more intimidating than I am.

Gin Wigmore

#35. The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

Ann Wigmore

#36. Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.

Gin Wigmore

#37. Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality.

Ann Wigmore

#38. Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.

Gin Wigmore

#39. I want to let everyone hear my music and enjoy it, but just as long as it's fun. I'll go as far as until it gets too much like a day job.

Gin Wigmore

#40. Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.

John Henry Wigmore

#41. I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

Gin Wigmore

#42. You just feel better when you look nice.

Gin Wigmore

#43. I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

Gin Wigmore

#44. That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.

Gin Wigmore

#45. I love playing shows. That's the time I have to really share what I am about.

Gin Wigmore

#46. The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

Ann Wigmore