Top 66 Grace Potter Quotes

I admire pop stars, and there’s parts of that world I’m glad I don’t have to go through. It takes a lot of work to do the things they do.

When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and driving Volkswagens.

Spirituality is complicated. I do not belong to any particular religious group, but I have profound respect for people who devote their lives to faith.

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

I hear it all the time: ‘What happened to the Grace Potter who didn’t used to wear makeup?’

I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.

I’ve seen Coldplay live a couple of times, and you feel like you just got rained over with glorious, glowing love. That’s a good feeling to leave people with.

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.

I hate long pants.

Music really does make you feel better.

It took a lot of years for me to get comfortable, strutting my stuff, dancing like a fool, having that sparkly dress on that says, ‘Here I am.’

I’ve gotta long list of things to do, bucket list things – play ‘Saturday Night Live,’ make a movie. I want a lot of things, but one of my deepest wishes would be to headline – and sell out – Red Rocks.

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students… I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else.

I was a bit of a film nerd as a kid.

There are daily stresses on the road, but when everyone gets fed, everyone gets happy. Simple.

I always think it’s a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

What I was drawn to the most about the Flying V was the weight distribution with the way I move on stage. The V just swings perfectly. It’s a great way to stay balanced, because I like to dance, and I’m a bit of a flail-er. The guitar centers me, and for me, it’s a really good balance.

Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get entitled. And they get picky. We don’t ever allow ourselves that possibility.

Follow your path unapologetically. Be compassionate.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I’m going to go straight.

A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like they are not alone, and making them feel like it is OK to be a little bit insane. That has always been sort of my credo in life.

Voting is something that we all have a right to. It’s not something that we have to do… it’s absolutely an honor and a great opportunity to be heard.

When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it’s so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.

I think I knew when I was about 2 and a half that I wanted to be a singer.

I know what it takes to gain a fan.

There are a lot of bands coming up now that are literally thrusting their soul, their passion into something that fans can pay for a ticket to go see, and they know it’s going to be awe-inspiring.

I’m not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat – almost playing the guitar more like a drum.

With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn’t think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was.

Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.

I love Kind bars – I seriously always have them in my purse because they’re so yummy.

As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.

In a lot of ways, the Nocturnals are a safety net and a beautiful, beautiful blanket. All the life and music we’ve woven makes it so much more than a name on a marquee. But I realized the Nocturnals aren’t me but a part of me… so it’s natural to want to grow.

For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont.

I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not.

When people see a talented girl, it calls to mind the very rare breed of women who have managed to succeed. If I were a dude with the exact same voice, band and songs, I doubt they’d compare me to Sheryl Crow. But hey, I’m not complaining. Big fish, small pond.

I love a great pair of shoes, and as long as I feel like I can walk in them, I can dance in them.

I loved the experience of going to the farmers’ market, seeing where your food is grown, turning it into something delicious.

I know it’s strange, but I’ve always had a better time with other people’s wild ideas. Coming up with my own is a deeply emotional and challenging thing to do.

It’s easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that’s been my experience.

I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

I’m legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing.

I’m very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films and mythology and stories.

It’s funny: when I was a kid, my mom would reorganize the record collection all the time. She’d have classical, she’d have Celtic, she’d have rock and roll, and then she’d have female singers. And I don’t like it that female singers are their own genre.

Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It’s all about pacing. It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. His output is amazing, but his movements are subtle. As I get older, I’ll have to adhere to these rules.

Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.

I don’t have any kids of my own, but I love my band, and I love the people I’m around and taking care of them.

When I’m onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.

As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and meet people and try new things, and you shouldn’t be judged for it.

I was, like, a kooky kid, so people thought I was loud, but I really wasn’t. I was kind of loud in outbursts. I was like a silent volcano. When I did have something to share, it was very over-the-top. But I’ve learned to balance that.

Being on a major label is like living at your friend’s parent’s mansion: It’s a lot nicer than any apartment we could afford, and the fridge is always full of food.

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you’re making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It’s just like being married, except you’re married to more than one person!

I’ve gone from wearing jeans and cowboy boots to wearing miniskirts and gold tassels and high heels. I’m sure I’m not going to dress that way forever. It’s going to change again and again.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

I’m a very loud and outspoken creature.

As a kid, I was not a tomboy; I was a total girl wearing tutus and red shoes.

I love ‘New Girl.’ I think it’s so fun.

When we were recording ‘This is Somewhere,’ we were still super green, super from Vermont, super not knowing what to do.

I’m really into poetry.

You have to be a part of the conversation if you want to change the conversation.

Trends suck you in, anywhere in the world, patterns you don’t even see. It’s so easy. Look at Wall Street – look at any sports team in the world – there are trends. Look at exercising. Nothing but patterns and trends, and that’s what I started to see. Like a flock of birds all flying in one direction.

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

I’ve been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.

I’m from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay. Those people are my home, and every time I come home, it reminds me that there’s something to be said for being in the spotlight, but it can never be a whole part of me.

In my mind, an album shouldn’t be self-titled unless it feels that way.

Dr. Dog is good summer music.

I always loved the piano because it’s just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.