Rosanne Cash Quotes

The key to change is to let go of fear.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

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

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

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

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

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.

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

I love mixing up my genres.

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.

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.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

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

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

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

I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me.

Every person's every action has an effect.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.

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

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

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.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

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.

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

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

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

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

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

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.

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

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.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

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.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

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.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

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