Nanci Griffith Quotes

I can't imagine life without singing.

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

Life is a song to me.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Singing was my first passion. Whenever I sing, I'm always so happy.

I sing just for fun.

So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.

I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.

Be free, and live life fully.

I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.