13 Quotes by Jennifer Warnes

The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.

I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.

It's the right time of the night for making love.

The purity of sound that Cisco Music and Bernie Grundman have achieved with this 45rpm version of Famous Blue Raincoat 20th Anniversary Edition is shockingly perfect. I have never heard any version of Famous Blue Raincoat which sounds better... and I've heard them all. No caveats: This LP set is unbelievably gorgeous. I have been waiting two decades to hear it like this. Cisco's 45rpm edition is simply as good as Famous Blue Raincoat gets.

I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn't strange to me. I didn't need everything to be light and simple for me to see the beauty in it.