Rosanne Cash Quotes

“The key to change ... is to let go of fear,”

— Rosanne Cash

“Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.”

— Rosanne Cash

“We talk about your drinking
But not about your thirst
You set off through the minefield
Like you were rounding first”

— Rosanne Cash

“I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.”

— Rosanne Cash

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

— Rosanne Cash

“Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.”

— Rosanne Cash

“I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.”

— Rosanne Cash

“I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.”

— Rosanne Cash

“It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.”

— Rosanne Cash

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

— Rosanne Cash

“I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.”

— Rosanne Cash

“Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.”

— Rosanne Cash

“And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.”

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“But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.”

— Rosanne Cash

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

— Rosanne Cash

“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.”

— Rosanne Cash

“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.”

— Rosanne Cash

“I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.”

— Rosanne Cash

Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

— Rosanne Cash

“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.”

— Rosanne Cash

“Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.”

— Rosanne Cash

“Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.”

— Rosanne Cash

“Work ... is redemption.”

— Rosanne Cash

“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.”

— Rosanne Cash

“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

— Rosanne Cash

“With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.”

— Rosanne Cash

Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics.

— Rosanne Cash

I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.

— Rosanne Cash

“On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.”

— Rosanne Cash

“It was never too late to undo who you had become.”

— Rosanne Cash

“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 I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.”

— Rosanne Cash

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

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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.

— Rosanne Cash

“As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.”

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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 religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.”

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“I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.”

— Rosanne Cash

“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.”

— Rosanne Cash

“More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.”

— Rosanne Cash

“I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.”

— Rosanne Cash

“I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.”

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“I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.”

— Rosanne Cash

“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, really fun.”

— Rosanne Cash

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

— Rosanne Cash

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

— Rosanne Cash

“Southern gentility is evocative to me.”

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“Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.”

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While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.

— Rosanne Cash

“I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.”

— Rosanne Cash