Top 70 Amy Grant Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.”

— Amy Grant

2. “Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there’s shadow – no, not just shadow, but fullness. You’ve got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that’s real.”

— Amy Grant

3. “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.”

— Amy Grant

4. “The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.”

— Amy Grant

5. “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.”

— Amy Grant

6. “I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There’s something very front and center about being young.”

— Amy Grant

7. “If I had my life to live over again, I’d run barefoot, relax a bit more, I’d talk more to children, and I’d learn how they laugh.”

— Amy Grant

8. “The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.”

— Amy Grant

9. “The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.”

— Amy Grant

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10. “Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn’t live like a star. He’d taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.”

— Amy Grant

11. “Giving never happens by accident. It’s always intentional.”

— Amy Grant

12. “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.”

— Amy Grant

13. “If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see...”

— Amy Grant

14. “I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.”

— Amy Grant

15. “People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that’s the really crazy thing.”

— Amy Grant

16. “Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?”

— Amy Grant

17. “I’m frustrated by something, it’s my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it’s just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?”

— Amy Grant

18. “I’m going to live what I believe.”

— Amy Grant

19. “I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges – waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That’s just the nature of life.”

— Amy Grant

20. “I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.”

— Amy Grant

21. “Love’s for fools wise enough to take a chance.”

— Amy Grant

22. “I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I’ve made some bad choices.”

— Amy Grant

23. “Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.”

— Amy Grant

24. “I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits – all kinds of music.”

— Amy Grant

25. “I need music like I need water.”

— Amy Grant

26. “I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God’s unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they’ll have confidence to persevere in life.”

— Amy Grant

27. “Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity – like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.”

— Amy Grant

28. “There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.”

— Amy Grant

29. “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.”

— Amy Grant

30. “Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.”

— Amy Grant

31. “All I ever have to be is what you made me.”

— Amy Grant

32. “Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you’re burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.”

— Amy Grant

33. “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.”

— Amy Grant

34. “I can look at the future with anticipation. And it’s comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we’ll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.”

— Amy Grant

35. “You have to treat people gently because we’re all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don’t know that until you get there.”

— Amy Grant

36. “But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.”

— Amy Grant

37. “I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I’ve gotten.”

— Amy Grant

38. “You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.”

— Amy Grant

39. “If a politician isn’t doing it to his wife, then he’s doing it to his country.”

— Amy Grant

40. “I love being with my children. They’re fascinating people.”

— Amy Grant

41. “Everybody’s entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.”

— Amy Grant

42. “There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There’s not a timetable.”

— Amy Grant

43. “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.”

— Amy Grant

44. “I refuse to believe that we’re only here to live and die.”

— Amy Grant

45. “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.”

— Amy Grant

46. “Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.”

— Amy Grant

47. “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.”

— Amy Grant

48. “Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.”

— Amy Grant

49. “I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I’m not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.”

— Amy Grant

50. “Since I travel so much, it’s always great to be home. There’s nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.”

— Amy Grant