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.
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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!
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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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.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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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.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality.
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It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.
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I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
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I'm a huge Top 40 lover.
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Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.
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I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
