124 Quotes by Rosanne Cash

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s – t and you think you’re terrible and you’ll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Music is service to people. Music and art – we need it like blood and oxygen. It heals us, and it reveals us to ourselves.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn’t end.

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

The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I’m singing, I can’t feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain – a lot of pain – and he said the only time when he didn’t feel pain was when he performed and sang.

I’m not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music – and children.

While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I’m still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

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.