Home / Quotes / Quote by Nanci Griffith

Quote by Nanci Griffith

“I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.”

Quote by Nanci Griffith

Author

Nanci Griffith is a renowned American singer-songwriter, celebrated for her distinctive vocal style and narrative songwriting. Active since the 1970s, she has released numerous albums and received critical acclaim. Her music often delves into themes of love, loss, and social issues, and she has collaborated with many other prominent musicians over the years. more

You May Also Like

“Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.”

Way May Able Song Three Sound Half Fiction Fantasy Minutes Listeners Fantasy Life

Author:Nanci Griffith

“Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?”

Lord Woods Leaving Me

Book:The Lazarus Project

Source: The Lazarus Project

“I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.”

Thinking Winning Losing

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I had an epiphany: I was a loser.”

Book:The Book of My Lives

Source: The Book of My Lives

“A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.”

Writing I Can Space Pieces Particular Wall Return Providing

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.”

Men Writing Book Song Names Delight Readiness Abbey Abbey Road

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.”

Self Form Hatred Hated Self Hatred Pretentiousness

Book:The Book of My Lives

Source: The Book of My Lives

“I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.”

Whole Games Sin Path Redemption Confession Describing Confessing

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.”

People May Has Beens Country States Enough America Hours United United States Lucky Harmonious

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.”

World Might Belief Tree Spring Innocent Curse Hopeless Reverse Leafs Harbinger

Book:The Book of My Lives

Source: The Book of My Lives