144 Quotes by Rodney Crowell

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

I'm very grateful that I was given the ability to create.

The way I made 'Diamonds and Dirt,' which had all those hits in a row, was that I was just making a record. It was just the one that rolled up in my natural process, and it happened to be commercial.

I think, back in the '80s when I was having hits all the time, I took it for granted.

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.

My mother's a very spiritual woman, and I think Pentecostal religion, Bible religion, was very important to her because it gave her a context for a very spiritual approach to life.

I've always said that Guy Clark is a regional songwriter without being regional. He's global. His craft is like, well, Larry McMurtry would be an example. I kind of see Guy Clark and Larry McMurtry in the same wave.

Conversation is a really good way to get things done.