Patty Griffin Quotes

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.

Music is such a part of my soul.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

Definitely being spiritual helps me create good music because music is ultimately the sound of the god.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

Music inspires me.

I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?' but I really can't! It's my form of therapy.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

Making music is fantastic.