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Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

Rosanne Cash

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Rosanne Cash
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 24
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Memphis
Tennessee
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Conversation
Color
Song
Dream
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Music
Fragments
Everything
Begins
Sometimes
Sky

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Southern gentility is evocative to me.
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
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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.
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Country has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.
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My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.
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I don't do comparisons because I always lose.
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I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.
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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.
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There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this Aha moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing.
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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.
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Work ... is redemption.
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For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.
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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves
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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.
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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.
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