Shawn Colvin Quotes

#1. Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. Any human relationship either grows or withers. There's no leveling off, except stagnation or the hardening of the will into concrete. For friends, lovers, married people, a next step must be there and must be taken.

William Kinsolving

#3. That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
Colvin, Sarah McLachlan ... now enter Maia Sharp.

Art Garfunkel

#5. Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

Shawn Colvin

#6. I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

Shawn Colvin

#7. This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.

Shawn Colvin

#8. You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?

Shawn Colvin

#9. Think it is just a matter of ... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.

Christine Lavin

#10. There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.

Shawn Colvin

#11. I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

Shawn Colvin

#12. Oh you kissed the soul of a rebel
In a Yankee girl
You got to me
I heard you callin' 'round the world
From your back roads
Tennessee

Shawn Colvin

#13. Without music, I could not get through.

Shawn Colvin

#14. I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

Shawn Colvin

#15. Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.

Union Pour La Verite

#16. Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.

Shawn Colvin

#17. I'm not worried about my father. If anybody understands taking a woman captive to ensure keeping her - he does. You can't grow up in a family like mine and not be a stalker. When we love, we obsess. We love like crazy until it gets in our bones, fucks with our minds, and takes over our soul.

Suzanne Steele

#18. What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

Shawn Colvin

#19. People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Graham Nash

#20. One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

Shawn Colvin

#21. And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world

Shawn Colvin

#22. John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.

Shawn Colvin

#23. Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

Shawn Colvin

#24. The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

Shawn Colvin

#25. I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.

Shawn Colvin

#26. Love as if you are born to love.

Debasish Mridha

#27. The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

Vernon Howard

#28. The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

Shawn Colvin