Top 60 Rosanne Cash Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The key to change is to let go of fear.”

— Rosanne Cash

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2. “Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.”

— Rosanne Cash

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3. “Isn’t that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn’t recognize or didn’t think were there all along? That’s what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.”

— Rosanne Cash

4. “There’s always that moment when you realize what it’s going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks – and then there’s this “Aha” moment when you see where it’s going. That’s the most satisfying part of writing.”

— Rosanne Cash

5. “It was never too late to undo who you had become.”

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Rosanne Cash

7. “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.”

— Rosanne Cash

8. “I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I’m not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me.”

— Rosanne Cash

9. “With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.”

— Rosanne Cash

10. “For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.”

— Rosanne Cash

11. “As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.”

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12. “If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.”

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13. “I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.”

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14. “Documenting one’s life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.”

— Rosanne Cash

15. “The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most – it’s a monk’s sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.”

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16. “My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn’t care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that’s why all stripes claim him. He didn’t judge.”

— Rosanne Cash

17. “Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.”

— Rosanne Cash

18. “I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.”

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Rosanne Cash

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

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21. “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.”

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Rosanne Cash

23. “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.”

— Rosanne Cash

24. “I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.”

— Rosanne Cash

25. “I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.”

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Rosanne Cash

27. “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.”

— Rosanne Cash

28. “Every person’s every action has an effect.”

— Rosanne Cash

29. “I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

— Rosanne Cash

30. “Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.”

— Rosanne Cash

31. “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.”

— Rosanne Cash

32. “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

33. “I love mixing up my genres.”

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34. “Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.”

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35. “I don’t do comparisons because I always lose.”

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

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Rosanne Cash

39. “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.”

— Rosanne Cash

40. “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

41. “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

42. “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

43. “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

44. “My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.”

— Rosanne Cash

45. “For the first time in 23 years I’m enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.”

— Rosanne Cash

46. “As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.”

— Rosanne Cash

47. “Southern gentility is evocative to me.”

— Rosanne Cash

48. “Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that’s the last one, I don’t want to record anymore, I don’t want to do this any more, I don’t want to have a public life.”

— Rosanne Cash

49. “I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.”

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50. “When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they’re still coming.”

— Rosanne Cash