Quotes by Rosanne Cash

About Rosanne Cash:

Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin.
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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

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

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

Rosanne Cash

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

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

Rosanne Cash

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

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

Rosanne Cash

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

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

Rosanne Cash

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

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

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Rosanne Cash

Every person's every action has an effect.

Rosanne Cash

If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.

Rosanne Cash

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

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

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

Rosanne Cash

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

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Rosanne Cash

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

Author Bio

  • NameRosanne Cash
  • Descriptionsinger-songwriter from the United States
  • BornMay 24, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter
  • AwardsGrammy Award For Best American Roots Performance; Grammy Award For Best American Roots Song; Grammy Award For Best Americana Album