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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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
