Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit. — Rosanne Cash Autobiography Copy Share Image
I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up. — Rosanne Cash Growing Copy Share Image
More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context. — Rosanne Cash Folk Copy Share Image
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant. — Rosanne Cash Grief Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Ephemeral Copy Share Image
Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq. — Rosanne Cash Cash Copy Share Image
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or… — Rosanne Cash Adventure Copy Share Image
My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time. — Rosanne Cash Art Copy Share Image
As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly. — Rosanne Cash Democracies Copy Share Image
It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing… — Rosanne Cash America Copy Share Image
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music… — Rosanne Cash Felt Copy Share Image
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and… — Rosanne Cash Acoustics Copy Share Image
The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism.… — Rosanne Cash Attention Copy Share Image
I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and… — Rosanne Cash Book Copy Share Image
Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal… — Rosanne Cash Coal Copy Share Image
Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the… — Rosanne Cash Celtic Copy Share Image
I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my… — Rosanne Cash Clothes Copy Share Image
Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always… — Rosanne Cash Creative Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities… — Rosanne Cash Choices Copy Share Image
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… — Rosanne Cash Bees Copy Share Image
When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we… — Rosanne Cash Bus Copy Share Image
I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do — Rosanne Cash Carve Copy Share Image
Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my… — Rosanne Cash Dad Copy Share Image
“Music is service to people. Music and art - we need it like blood and oxygen. It heals us, and it reveals… — Rosanne Cash Art Copy Share Image
I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience. — Rosanne Cash Add Copy Share Image
You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to… — Rosanne Cash Artist Copy Share Image
If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I… — Rosanne Cash Culture Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no… — Rosanne Cash American politics Copy Share Image
Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and… — Rosanne Cash Baby Copy Share Image
“I have been so struck by the mettle of the men who founded this country and wrote the Constitution. What unbelievable persistence… — Rosanne Cash Attention span Copy Share Image