Kina Grannis's Quotes
Born: 1985-08-04
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Kina Grannis
In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
Tags: Love, Respect, TrustI get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
Tags: Amazing, Crazy, TravelI think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.
Tags: Compared, Special, SpecificI want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
Tags: Life, Training, WhetherI'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.
Tags: Good, Healthy, SaidIf you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
Tags: Living, Looking, MusicMaking a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.
Tags: Artists, Exciting, MakingMy dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.
Tags: Artists, Both, DreamMy two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.
Tags: Harmony, Sisters, TimeThe first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.
Tags: Die, Takes, WantedEver since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.
Tags: Since, Song, TimeI started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.
Tags: Guitar, Song, WritingI went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.
Tags: Big, Life, MusicI'm kind of feeling like I don't mind being open with the random details of my life, like I'm at a coffee shop or my toe hurts or something, but obviously other more personal areas of life where I will just never really go there.
Tags: Feeling, Life, MindI've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.
Tags: Alone, Life, WritingIf I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.
Tags: Guitar, Start, TryIn college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.
Tags: Music, Problem, TimeMy first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.
Tags: Fun, Sing, SongThe potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.
Tags: Knew, Music, Success