Top 32 Crowell Quotes
#1. Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.
Rodney Crowell
#2. The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.
Isaiah Crowell
#4. You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.
Rodney Crowell
#5. When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Dylan roots are showing big time.
Rodney Crowell
#6. In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.
Rodney Crowell
#7. You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin
Rodney Crowell
#8. Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.
Rodney Crowell
#9. [My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.
Rodney Crowell
#10. It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me - two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.
Rodney Crowell
#11. It's hard to kiss the lips at night/That chew your ass out all day long.
Rodney Crowell
#12. Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.
Grace Noll Crowell
#13. Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.
Grace Noll Crowell
#14. To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
Marnie Reed Crowell
#16. Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.
Rodney Crowell
#17. I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.
Rodney Crowell
#18. Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.
Grace Noll Crowell
#20. I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.
Casper Odinson Crowell
#21. If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.
Rodney Crowell
#22. He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.
Rodney Crowell
#23. James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.
Vonda Shepard
#24. On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.
Rodney Crowell
#26. If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others ... Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.
Rodney Crowell
#29. A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.
Rodney Crowell
#30. What is life but a dream and being able to put a little bit of it to work.
Hubert Crowell
#31. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
Grace Noll Crowell
#32. Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that ... and I fall flat on my ass. I've never written a lasting song with that mindset. It doesn't work.
Rodney Crowell
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