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Rodney Crowell
Algerian Musician
Born: Aug 7, 1950
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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
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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
Myself Reality Writing Be Patient Patient Framed OK Writer Never Allowed Well Said Block Up Going Just Filling Early
My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne'er-do-well. He wasn't lazy. He just couldn't hold on to money. It just, it was an enigma for him. He just, his pockets were always empty. Rodney Crowell
Family Money Father Though Pockets Lazy He Him Empty Always Were His Very Just Hold Poor Working Strangely Enigma
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
Good Day You Father Argument Kick One Day High Hat Foot Had Cheap He Put Perfectly Drummer Drums Said Came Friday Friday Night Shop Tuesday Pawn Your Who Play Here Playing Night Set
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor. Rodney Crowell
Creative Endeavor Rush Write Songs Comfortable Because Methodology Very Any Sensibilities Notion
I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry. Rodney Crowell
Poet Consideration Say Would Would-Be Bestow Someone Poetry Take Intention Where Cannot Disingenuous
I wouldn't go as far to say that anything that I've done is timeless. Rodney Crowell
Say Go Timeless Done Anything Far
Townes Van Zandt ranks alongside Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan. He inspired so many songwriters to shoot for something that's timeless. Rodney Crowell
Ranks Van Something Inspired He Songwriters Alongside Timeless Shoot Dylan Bob Bob Dylan Many
It's a gift that we get to do the work that we do to call ourselves artists. Rodney Crowell
Work Gift Ourselves Call Get Artists
'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
Me Will Recording Past Positioning Diligently Hopefully Entertaining More Recording Artist Outsider Toward Obsolete Render Culmination Been Lot American Artist While Working Conscious Socially Things
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
Good Me Young Ten Write Take Songs Songwriters Said Get Often Want Might Really
Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say. Rodney Crowell
Me Song Writing Better Sometimes Say Tells Through Wants Speaks
I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it. Rodney Crowell
Try Feeling Out Record Perfect Bleed Make
Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. Rodney Crowell
Time Three Country Favorite Williams Willie Willie Nelson Nelson All-Time Cash Johnny Johnny Cash Country Singer Singer Well Sure Five Hank Hank Williams Then Need
I read Nabakov for style, Mary Karr for heart and resonance of where I come from. She's from the same part of the world that I'm from. Cormac McCarthy and Hemingway, to read the masters. Rodney Crowell
Heart World Style Resonance Mary Part Come She Read Masters Same Where McCarthy Hemingway
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
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