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Rosanne Cash

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Rosanne Cash
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 24
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Memphis
Tennessee
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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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Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.
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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.
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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.
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The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.
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Southern gentility is evocative to me.
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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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If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.
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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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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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I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Country has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.
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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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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 found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
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