Rodney Crowell

Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you.

— Rodney Crowell

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

— Rodney Crowell

When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best…

— Rodney Crowell

I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of…

— Rodney Crowell

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do…

— Rodney Crowell

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes…

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For me, my career has never been about what I've done. But it's been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.

— Rodney Crowell

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

— Rodney Crowell

When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip…

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People ask me, 'What is the mystique of the Texas songwriter?' Well, we ran barefoot from March until November. I think there's…

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Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat…

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I concern myself with timelessness all the time. If you're not swinging for museum quality, your mind is not in the right…

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Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance…

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In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely…

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I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm…

— Rodney Crowell

Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor…

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If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more…

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As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

— Rodney Crowell

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes,…

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In my 15 minutes of fame around 'Diamonds and Dirt,' it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity.

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I don't make music for the radio. And when I was being played on the radio a lot, I didn't.

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Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably…

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I admired Mary's work very much. From the time someone gave me 'The Liars' Club,' I immediately went into a world where…

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For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6…

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I don't think that 'The Weight of the World' is all about politics. It's like, how the environment and how the natural…

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I don't know if I owned a toothbrush until I was 19, maybe. I didn't come from stock that placed any importance…

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I read Nabakov for style, Mary Karr for heart and resonance of where I come from. She's from the same part of…

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Of course, you can't teach songwriting. You can only encourage people to do it and help them to sort out for themselves…

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My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a…

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As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me…

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I think, in the middle of the '90s, I made a couple of records where I tried to figure out what I…

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Since 'Houston Kid,' I've got a pretty good track record. Before that, I wrote some hit songs, but I didn't come into…

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To be earning a living as an artist at any time, any place is kinda the ultimate gift that you can receive…

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The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or…

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I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded…

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The way I made 'Diamonds and Dirt,' which had all those hits in a row, was that I was just making a…

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With 'Fate's Right Hand,' I think I reached a level of completeness in forming and articulating ideas at around the same time…

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Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a…

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I've always said that Guy Clark is a regional songwriter without being regional. He's global. His craft is like, well, Larry McMurtry…

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When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that…

— Rodney Crowell