Nanci Griffith Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
