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My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance... It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, 'I don't know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,' at the same time, I did understand that this was passion.
- Rodney Crowell
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#Great
#Me
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I don't think that 'The Weight of the World' is all about politics. It's like, how the environment and how the natural topography of this planet would ever fall into a political division, debate, just leaves me confused.
- Rodney Crowell
#Debate
#Me
#Political
#Politics
#World
Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.
- Rodney Crowell
#Adolescence
#Culture
#Road
#Woman
#Young
I've had a nice career. I'm no David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen out there. I'm not an icon. I'm just a working artist.
- Rodney Crowell
#Artist
#Career
#Icon
#Just
#Nice
The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it would be a mistake to presume that I'm not using fiction to extend the narrative.
- Rodney Crowell
#Know
#Mistake
#Old
#Place
#Time
Over the years, I've come to realize that writing 'I Ain't Living Long Like This' was an exercise in combined musical influence, mostly that of Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan - artists no one has ever heard of.
- Rodney Crowell
#Exercise
#Influence
#Like
#Living
#Long
I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'
- Rodney Crowell
#Early
#Myself
#Never
#Reality
#Writing
Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.
- Rodney Crowell
#Home
#Judge
#Ownership
#Parents
#Thieves
In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn't fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.
- Rodney Crowell
#Earth
#Life
#Survival
#Time
#Woman
There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.
- Rodney Crowell
#Based
#Choices
#Make
#Melody
#Songwriter
My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came in with a cheap pawn shop set of drums and said, 'Put your foot here, and you kick there, and you play this, and this is the high hat.' And Friday night, I was playing in a honky-tonk.
- Rodney Crowell
#Day
#Father
#Good
#Hat
#Night
When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.
- Rodney Crowell
#Conquer
#Ego
#Emptiness
#Old
#Women
I wouldn't go as far to say that anything that I've done is timeless.
- Rodney Crowell
#Anything
#Done
#Far
#Go
#Say
Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you.
- Rodney Crowell
#Collaboration
#Leads
#Move
#New
#Things
Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.
- Rodney Crowell
#Anger
#Angry
#Father
#Man
#Mother
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