Nanci Quotes & Sayings

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! — Nanci Griffith

There's no point in wasting calories on cheap chocolate, always opt for the darkest and richest. — Nanci Rathbun

There's a lot of common ground between criminals and cops. Both savor power, thrills, control. The good cops know they're only a step or two away from the crooks they're arresting. — Nanci Rathbun

I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback. — Donald Miller

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. — Nanci Griffith

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist. — Nanci Griffith

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best. — Nanci Griffith

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song. — Nanci Griffith

Sometimes I wish I was a lesbian, it would make life so much easier. I hear they're more than ninety-percent faithful. What a concept! — Nanci Rathbun

Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch. — Kathy Mattea

She loved him because he was the reason why. — Nanci Kincaid

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me. — Nanci Griffith

The fact is, there are a couple of years he may not have paid any taxes. Maybe he's concerned about that. But if it's going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple of months to explain it. — Joe Scarborough

It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history. — Nanci Kincaid

On ACTION: "Stop talking;start DO-ing. — Nanci McGraw

Even the truth can be damaging, if it's revealed too soon or too late or to the wrong parties. — Nanci Rathbun

If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody. — John Gimlette

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult. — Nanci Griffith

On SUCCESS: "Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers." (TM) — Nanci McGraw

I've always been a very prolific writer. — Nanci Griffith

Despite the raging wrath of our foes the holy souls of your brothers and sisters will remain alive. These evil ones scheme to blot out their names from the face of the earth; but a man cannot destroy letters. For words have wings; they mount up to the heavenly heights and they endure for eternity. — Neil Gaiman

On GOALSETTING: "I don't enjoy talking about what I am GOING to DO. I prefer to let folks find out what I've DONE. — Nanci McGraw

Milwaukee has more bars and more churches per capita than almost any other city in North America. I'm not sure if there's a relationship in that. Does too much prayer cause you to drink? Or vice versa? — Nanci Rathbun

The beauty of being a woman, as the French say, "of a certain age", is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women, look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed. — Nanci Rathbun

When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view ... and things that informed me. — Nanci Griffith

I know that we're going into this together. I know we're equal, but let me protect you. That's what I'm supposed to do. — Tijan

On ACHIEVEMENT: "We all need encouragement--I love Notable, Quotable, DO-able Quotes! — Nanci McGraw

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. — Nanci Griffith