Amy Grant Quotes
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Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.
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Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
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I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.
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All I ever have to be is what you made me.
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There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
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To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.
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I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.
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There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
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Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.
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For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
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The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.
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Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.
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When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.
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I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.
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The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.
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To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.
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That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.
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Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.
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I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.
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It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground.
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I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
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Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
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I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
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I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.
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It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
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Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.
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Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.
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In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
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But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.
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Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.
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