Rodney Crowell Quotes

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.
As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I'm going to be in trouble anyway.
As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.
As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.
As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.
As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.
As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers.
At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.
Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.
Collaboration allows me to challenge myself to find a new passion for music.
Collaboration is a vital part of my creative life. I've had success with Guy Clark and Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.
Conversation is a really good way to get things done.
Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.
For me, my career has never been about what I've done. But it's been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.
For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6 to 15 years old, and it sort of cross-pollinates with other kids in my neighborhood. It fuses their experiences with what was going on in my life.
Have I felt misunderstood by Music Row at times? Of course.
I admired Mary's work very much. From the time someone gave me 'The Liars' Club,' I immediately went into a world where I grew up. And I remember, when I finished the book, I actually thought, 'You know what, I need to write songs with her.'
I can stitch a song together in about an hour anytime you want, but it won't have the depth.
I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.
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Rodney Crowell
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07 August, 1950
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