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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
Grew
Didn
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Songwriter
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Songwriters
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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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It was never too late to undo who you had become.
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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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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 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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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 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 do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
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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 was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.
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