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Rodney Crowell Quotes

Algerian - Musician | August 7, 1950 -

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

Enough Become Fan Metallica

I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it.

Perfect Feeling Try Out Make Bleed

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

Mistakes Out Leave Finally Make How

Conversation is a really good way to get things done.

Good Conversation Done Way Things

I grew up poor in East Houston. I used to be ashamed of it, but I'm not anymore. It's kind of a badge of courage now.

Courage Now Kind Poor Houston Up

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.

Time Country Three Need Singer Cash

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.

Heart Style World She Same Where

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.'

Heart Best Imagination Me Think Go

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.

Best Mind Me Song Horse Way

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!'

Control Thought Yes Gain Chances

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.

Women Ego Conquer Nashville First

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.

Diamonds Late Dirt Big Peak Made

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