A Quote by Grant-Lee Phillips

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

Grant-Lee Phillips

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Grant-Lee Phillips
American - Singer
Born: September 1, 1963

I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute.

Patricia Gaffney

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

Bill Burr

I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

Hailey Gates

I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.

Werner Herzog

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

Al Franken

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Danny Boyle

I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

Jill Sobule

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

Patricia Highsmith

I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

Jill Sobule

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

Jason Isbell

Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting camps.

David Hepworth

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

Gale Norton

I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food. I think when you find depression and sadness and hopelessness, many times it's connected to certain food and access to quality and nutrition.

Adrian Grenier

Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

Gaston Bachelard

I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

George W. Bush

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Eckhart Tolle

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