Patty Griffin Quotes

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

Patty Griffin

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• After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Country
  • Ignore

• Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Thought
  • Sexy

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  

  Larry King
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Traffic

• In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • World
  • Education

• I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Ball
  • Middle
  • Chances

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Power
  • Debt

• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Mistakes

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Same
  • Movement

• When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Dead
  • Politician

• We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • More
  • Noise

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Walk

• I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • School
  • Age

• Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Music
  • Love
  • Play

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Son

• I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Thinking
  • Pain
  • inspirational

• I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Pretty