Rosanne Cash Quotes
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More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.
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I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
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You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.
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Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.
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If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.
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I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.
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If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.
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Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.
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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
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The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.
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For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.
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I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.
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I love mixing up my genres.
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I don't do comparisons because I always lose.
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Work ... is redemption.
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I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun.
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves
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It was never too late to undo who you had become.
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If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end
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My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.
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I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars
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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
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"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.
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Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.
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And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
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We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.
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The key to change is to let go of fear.
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I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.
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