Nanci Griffith's Quotes

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

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!

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

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

I've always been a very prolific writer.

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

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

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.

I need to be thinking about a few things at once. I think it actually helps because you're cross-fertilizing yourself.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

I think there's an infinite number of cool technology sports that should exist that don't.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.