Patty Griffin Quotes

I have a talent, I can sing.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

I was a born singer.

Some people have the gift where they can just sing. I don't have the fail-safe voice, so it has to be something that I need to sing about.

There's a lot of great singers out here.

I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing.

The greatest gift a man can have is to have an operatic voice.

I'm a great singer.

When movement isn't enough, you dance, or when speaking isn't enough, you sing. When it's organic, and it's earned like that in a musical, that's when it works, and then there's nothing like it because it's this thing that takes you to a whole 'nother level, you know?

I've been training myself and listening to other artists and seeing where their emotion comes from, singing a heartbreak song when they're in a happy relationship.

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

I'm here to make music; I'm not here be a fashion model.

I am very musical. Am I a great singer? No. But I'm extremely musical.

I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

I know I can sing; I can sing, and I like how I sound.

Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.

There will be slow songs, sad songs, happy songs, songs about boys, and songs about being who you are. I'm making sure I'm happy with all of the songs, because if I am not happy with them, I can't expect anyone else to be, you know?

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

Completing your performance with your own voice is so important. It's not only my face and expressions... the voice added to it always feels good.

I've always thought of myself as a singer, even when I was a child.

But me writing sad songs doesn't mean I am a sad person.

Mostly, I'm much more of a guitar player than I am a singer.

I play guitar; I can sing a little bit.