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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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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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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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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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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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Personality for me is the strongest statement.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn’t be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.
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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.
