Rodney Crowell Quotes

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

The poetry of country music will survive.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin