I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing. Rosanne Cash More Quotes by Rosanne Cash More Quotes From Rosanne Cash The key to change is to let go of fear. Rosanne Cash change letting-go inspirational Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins. Rosanne Cash reading-inspirational vitamins reading For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion. Rosanne Cash trustworthy expression art My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities. Rosanne Cash dad song war If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end Rosanne Cash ends ifs I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate. Rosanne Cash hatred revenge giving I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me. Rosanne Cash important book thinking Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up. Rosanne Cash growing-up father son I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do Rosanne Cash my-own needed 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. Rosanne Cash dad compassion judging Every person's every action has an effect. Rosanne Cash effects persons action 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 grew performers want It was never too late to undo who you had become. Rosanne Cash never-too-late change too-late Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit. Rosanne Cash midst pursuit strange I love mixing up my genres. Rosanne Cash genre mixing I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me. Rosanne Cash parent successful thinking With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant. Rosanne Cash unbearable grief tragedy Work ... is redemption. Rosanne Cash redemption work More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context. Rosanne Cash folk-music folks musician You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is. Rosanne Cash connections mind heart
