Best quotes by Rodney Crowell on Me

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  • As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers.
    - Rodney Crowell
  • 'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn't that be entertaining?
    - Rodney Crowell
  • I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we might get one really good one.'
    - Rodney Crowell
  • Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.
    - Rodney Crowell
  • When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.
    - Rodney Crowell
  • In my 15 minutes of fame around 'Diamonds and Dirt,' it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity.
    - Rodney Crowell
  • I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.
    - Rodney Crowell
  • I'm enough of a southeast Texas boy - there's enough white trash in my blood that when somebody gives me money to make a record, I feel like I have to please them instead of myself.
    - Rodney Crowell