Grant-Lee Phillips famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I played with the same band for years and years and theres a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, its nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Nice #Hands #Years
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Bitterness #Kind #Painful
Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Musician #Actors
I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Song #Night #Play
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Inspiration #Thinking #Misery
I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Tugging #Gravitation
I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Albums #Way #Made
It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Past #Accountability #Insult

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

Grant-Lee Phillips famous quotes

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