Patty Griffin Quotes
I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,' or go back to an old, beaten path - do some smaller things that I haven't done in 15 or 20 years. Just to sort of get my feet wet, because I haven't done my own material for a couple of years - I've been doing a lot of other things.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
Personality-wise, I'm much more suited to be in a band and part of an ensemble than I am to lead. I never have been comfortable with the leading thing.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
I avoid subways like the plague because I'm claustrophobic.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
A lot of things drew me to Texas. One is the wilderness: It's pretty close to wide open spaces, which I didn't grow up around and I love. You don't have to have a lot of money to have a view: The view is the sky, and it's everywhere.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had a gorgeous voice and was always singing around the house.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
It doesn't come naturally to me, being the boss and telling people what I want. I find it very taxing and tiring. I love getting to be way down the line in the decision-making chain.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
I just really need to sing and sing and sing and not worry about writing. Just by singing for pleasure, your voice takes you to what it wants to sing. And that is how the best stuff kind of emerges.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
I learned a lot from hanging out with Emmylou Harris. One of the biggest pointers she gave me was that if you don't know the words, drop the consonants: that way, you'll hide the sound.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
You have this life in this body, and it's really fragile. But what you have inside is what you have to offer, and it's just as important as anyone else's.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
Music doesn't have to be fancy. I work hard and enjoy the fact that people want to come to my shows. That's simple, but I'm pretty blue-collar about it.
Patty Griffin
American singer-songwriter\
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