Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowellis an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists...
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth7 August 1950
CityCrosby, TX
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So recently I went back and walked it, and it was only 24 blocks. Walking up Wayside Drive from Avenue P up to past Navigation?You know it's still a Pentecostal church, only it's a Spanish one now.
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I don't think it will ever be my style to take a big mallet and just ... bust the window with it, ... I have to get there in a more subtle way.
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Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of 'What people think of me is none of my business.' So I got really hooked on him.
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What I write, only I can write, because of my singular sensibility, so I made a deal with the creative process: I would try to live in a heightened state of awareness, and I would let the songs come, not force them to please someone other than myself.
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We did a show in New York the other day, and after we played The Obscenity Prayer , a woman came up to me and said, 'I'm buying your record as soon as it comes out, because the Dixie Chicks can kiss my (expletive), too!'
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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.
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I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.
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The poetry of country music will survive.
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[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.
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Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.
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A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.
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Don't compromise your heart for something crass.
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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.
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God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.