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Rosanne Cash
American
Musician
About the author
Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
#Dad
And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Old
#Focus
#Voice
#Anxiety
#Limitations
And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Life
#Success
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Time
#Being
#Deep
#Painting
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Time
#Years
#First
I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
I love mixing up my genres.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Love
I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Writers
#Musicians
#Daughters
#Actors
I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Songs
I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#War
#Destruction
#Violence
#Murder
#Terrorism
Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Want
#Life
#Public
#Years
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#People
#Day
#Reading
#Car
#Americans
#Suicide
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Children
#Daughter
#Home
#School
#Theatre
Every person's every action has an effect.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Action
#Effect
I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Emotions
#Desire
#Energy
#Revenge
#Hatred
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Dad
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#War
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Kids
#Problems
#Day
I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Country
#Wrong
My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Time
#Artist
It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#People
#Freedom
#America
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Right
#Nothing
#Writing
If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Love
#End
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Relationships
#Being
#Body
#Loss
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
The key to change... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#Fear
#Change
#Key
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.
Rosanne Cash,
American
Musician
#First
#Baby
#Mind
#Voice