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Rodney Crowell Quotes

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.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: algerian
Birth: August 7, 1950

Topics

Heart Best Imagination Me Think Go

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

Mother Art Me Genius You Museum

Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

John Corey Whaley

Learning Great Experience Struggle

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

Words People World Acting Play Said

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

World Language American Same Israel

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

Tomorrow Apology Ask Paper Because

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Think Better Short Film Transfer

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

Quality People Me I Can Play Human

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

People You Will Never Write Well

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Learning Business Music You Play

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

I Am Happy Think I Am Happy Play Am

If blockchain technologies ignore the eventuality of standards, we are going to see less adoption. Maybe we should think of the blockchain as a public-good utility and encourage an evolution that is not unlike the Internet's in terms of openness and neutrality of access.

William Mougayar

Think Internet Ignore Evolution See

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

Norman Rockwell

Me Face Picture Over Out Would

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