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I think, in the middle of the '90s, I made a couple of records where I tried to figure out what I thought the radio wanted from me. They weren't my best records by any stretch of the imagination. It didn't take me too long to figure out, 'Whoa, back up, dude. Just go back to following your heart, and it will all be OK.' Rodney Crowell
Best Me Heart Will Thought Made Long Whoa Think Imagination Too Back Back Up OK Out Tried Following Records Take Couple Dude Go Were Up Any Just Middle Where Wanted Your Figure Radio Stretch
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
Best Me Song Mind Somebody Before Else Way Tell Cart Horse Write Allow Putting Wants
The chances of getting Townes to like it were very remote. When I wrote 'Til I Gain Control Again,' Townes Van Zandt sort of nodded. And I thought, 'Yes!' Rodney Crowell
Thought Control Van Like Remote Wrote Sort Were Yes Very Getting Gain Again Chances
I made this record in the late '80s called 'Diamonds and Dirt,' and it was a big hit. It had five No. 1's, and it was my commercial peak, really. Rodney Crowell
Made Big Late Record Dirt Had Diamonds Big Hit Five Hit Commercial Really Peak
In my 15 minutes of fame around 'Diamonds and Dirt,' it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity. Rodney Crowell
Time Me Insecurity Healthy Minutes Dirt Because Around Diamonds Fame
Life can be either of two things: What it makes of you or what you make of it. Rodney Crowell
Life You Make Makes Either Things Two
Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism. Rodney Crowell
You Memory Writing Kid Memoir True Know Houston True Things Been Revisionist Happened Working Based Things Awhile
Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road. Rodney Crowell
Woman Culture Girl Young Our Adolescence Road Young Woman Hard
I don't make music for the radio. And when I was being played on the radio a lot, I didn't. Rodney Crowell
Music Make Lot Being Radio Played
Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it takes, you know, to stick with it and believe you can pull it out and make it real and finish it, I learned that a long time ago writing songs. Rodney Crowell
Time You Writing Long Long Time Dedication Believe Out Paragraphs Finish Songs Songwriting Long Time Ago Takes Know Make Learned Stick Narrative Real Very Craft Just Different Endurance Sustaining Sentences Pull
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
Music Me Old Pay Pay Attention Other Favorite Favorites Composition Recordings Attention Study Invisible Performed Performers Come Pieces Were Than Blues Produced Producer Really Nearly Started
My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again. Rodney Crowell
Mother Tell Would Over She Oral Stories Again Storyteller
I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value. Rodney Crowell
Entertainment Value Think Circles Some Pretty Songwriter Known Real Any Story Successful Career
My mother met my father at a Roy Acuff concert. Rodney Crowell
Mother Father Met Concert Roy
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
Beatles Writing Long Living Chuck Chuck Berry Elvis Elvis Presley Musical Williams Berry No-One Over Combined Come Like Mostly Exercise Years Heard Lee Artists Hank Hank Williams Influence Dylan Bob Bob Dylan Realize Jerry Ever Lewis
For me, my career has never been about what I've done. But it's been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further. Rodney Crowell
Myself Me Further About Never Pushing Becoming Been Done Achieving Career
Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you. Rodney Crowell
You Collaboration Invariably Leads New Self-Expression New Forms Move Forms Things
I concern myself with timelessness all the time. If you're not swinging for museum quality, your mind is not in the right place. It doesn't mean you get there, but at least it's the intent. Rodney Crowell
Time Myself You Quality Mind Right Place Concern Least Timelessness Get Intent Place Mean Your Swinging Right Museum
As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style. Rodney Crowell
Natural Will Poet Style Had Rogers Just Conversational
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
Time You Mistake Writing Old Presume Would Would-Be Write Almost Almost All Come Know Narrative Handbook Autobiographical Fiction Place Using Extend Starting
As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate. Rodney Crowell
Work Good Good Work Something Self-Awareness Doing Doing Good Cultivate Artist Ingredients
It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me. Rodney Crowell
Me Song Melody Easy Varies Always
As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I'm going to be in trouble anyway. Rodney Crowell
Creative Money Trouble First Corporate Way Out Scene Individual Songwriting Terms Make How How Much How Much Money Go Question Going Anyway Much Really Avoid
Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me. Rodney Crowell
Music Me Vision Resonates Favor Compromise Poetic Poets Generally Singular Commercial Artist Sensibility Whether Which Speaking Americana Actual
That young man that I was in 1988 - I was insecure. Besides making good music, I wanted to be cool; I wanted to be accepted and stuff. Rodney Crowell
Music Good Man Young Good Music Insecure Besides Stuff Accepted Making Wanted Young Man Cool
My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky. Rodney Crowell
People Tennessee Came Western Kentucky
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