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Nanci Griffith Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 6, 1953

Topics

Opportunity Time Mature My Own Pay

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Children Job Parents Acting Asian

A useless life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Death Early Useless

I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

Music Chance Rock Star Escape Rock

The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn't help you make a better record.

World Thinking Better American Help

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

Life Enjoy Life Yourself Enjoy You

That's the real work, being away from my loved ones, my family, my household. There's nothing that's hurt any more than being away from my little girl and missing days, but I'm lucky.

Work Family Girl Hurt Loved Nothing

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.

Kiss Hand Old First Be The First

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Great Architecture Building End Go

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

Jonathan Galassi

Story Lose Aura Sacred Starts Era

I don't take others' views seriously because that isn't a fact. I do respect everyone's view, but I am not affected.

Respect I Am View Seriously Others

I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Work Good Job Me Go Right

I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

Spiritual Feeling Capable Mental Get

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