124 Quotes by Rosanne Cash

Every person’s every action has an effect.

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It’s part of a living treasure. It doesn’t just belong to a museum.

I don’t do comparisons because I always lose.

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.

And I don’t think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

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

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I’ve gotten older. You add more life experience.

If you’re playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can’t respect that.

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.