82 Famous Quotes By Rosanne Cash That You Should Know
The key to change... is to let go of fear,
If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.
When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.
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.
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.
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.
Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.
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.
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.
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.
As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.
I don't do comparisons because I always lose.
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.
Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.
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.
Every person's every action has an effect.
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.
For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.
It was never too late to undo who you had become.
Southern gentility is evocative to me.
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
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.
![Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/rosanne-cash-80810.jpg)
Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.
Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
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.
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.
We talk about your drinking But not about your thirst You set off through the minefield Like you were rounding first
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.
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.
