Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cashis an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth24 May 1955
CityMemphis, TN
CountryUnited States of America
torches honorable profession
I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.
writing needs might
There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing.
growing-up growing sensitive
I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.
real heart people
While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.
thinking rivers goal
Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.
southern gentility
Southern gentility is evocative to me.
country marketing term
"Country" has become a marketing term, but I see myself as a songwriter.
song kids scotland
Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.
loses comparison
I don't do comparisons because I always lose.
thinking add life-experience
I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.
song dad school
When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.
song fun mean
I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating, really fun.