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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
Music
Fragments
Everything
Begins
Sometimes
Sky
Image
Conversation
Color
Song
Dream
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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.
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And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
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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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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.
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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 was never too late to undo who you had become.
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Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.
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With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
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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.
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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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For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.
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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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I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do
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Country has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.
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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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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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I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do
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Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.
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My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.
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