"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, American singer, born 1953
"Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something." — Helene Grimaud, French pianist, born 1969
"My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal." — Helene Grimaud, French pianist, born 1969
"The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost." — Juan Gris, Spanish painter, born 1887
"Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting." — Walter Gropius, German architect, born 1883
"However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again." — Walter Gropius, German architect, born 1883
"My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical." — George Grosz, German painter, born 1893
"The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity." — George Grosz, German painter, born 1893
"As I glow in this cold, dark night, I know I can't be a light unless I turn my face to You." — Sara Groves, American Christian singer, born 1972
"With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel." — Sara Groves, American Christian singer, born 1972
"At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." — Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist, born 1928