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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
Didn
Wanted
Much
Songwriter
Performer
Songwriters
Performers
Grew

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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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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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It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
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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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The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
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Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.
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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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Country has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.
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I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
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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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Every person's every action has an effect.
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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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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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With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
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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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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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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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