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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.

Rosanne Cash

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Rosanne Cash
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 24
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Memphis
Tennessee
Wanted
Much
Songwriter
Performer
Songwriters
Performers
Grew
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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
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I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.
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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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Southern gentility is evocative to me.
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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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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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Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.
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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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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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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.
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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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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Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.
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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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