Nanci Griffith Quotes

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

- Nanci Griffith

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!

- Nanci Griffith

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.

- Nanci Griffith

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

- Nanci Griffith

I've always been a very prolific writer.

- Nanci Griffith

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

- Nanci Griffith

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

- Nanci Griffith