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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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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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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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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The mind approves and the body consents.
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I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit.
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There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of the song. You basically want to create something that the fans relate to because it's exactly like them. So there's a lot of art that's made to be in the image of the audience, but then the audience is imitating this version of themselves. It's a really weird cultural feedback loop, and it's kind of strange to watch. It's a new thing since I was a kid, really a different thing.
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Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.
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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
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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.
