Quote

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

Rosanne Cash

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rosanne Cash
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 24
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Memphis
Tennessee
Song
Write
Found
Writing
Really
Sing
Songs
Couldn
Impossible

More quotes by Rosanne Cash

Image
I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.
Rosanne Cash
Image
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
Rosanne Cash
Image
Southern gentility is evocative to me.
Rosanne Cash
Image
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.
Rosanne Cash
Image
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves
Rosanne Cash
Image
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.
Rosanne Cash
Image
I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
Rosanne Cash
Image
Country has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.
Rosanne Cash
Image
I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do
Rosanne Cash
Image
I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.
Rosanne Cash
Image
For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.
Rosanne Cash
Image
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.
Rosanne Cash
Image
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.
Rosanne Cash
Image
I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.
Rosanne Cash
Image
I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.
Rosanne Cash
Image
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
Rosanne Cash
Image
It was never too late to undo who you had become.
Rosanne Cash
Image
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.
Rosanne Cash
Image
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.
Rosanne Cash
Image
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
Rosanne Cash