Rodney Crowell Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

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#3. 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.

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#4. The poet I saw once ...
but whose words have long been
in my mind, windows of invincible candles ...

Nathalie Handal

#5. A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

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#6. The poetry of country music will survive.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

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#9. It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. 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.

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#11. He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.

Gloria Steinem

#14. I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

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#15. Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.

Laurens Van Der Post

#16. God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

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#17. It's hard to kiss the lips at night/That chew your ass out all day long.

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#18. 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.

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#19. [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.

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#20. Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

Brian Tracy

#21. Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

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#22. You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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#25. You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

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#26. Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

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#27. Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

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