Sheryl Crow's Quotes
Born: 1962-02-11
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Sheryl Crow
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
Tags: Making, Records, SinceMost writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Tags: Anonymity, Making, WritersMusic commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
Tags: Experience, Feelings, MusicPeople don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
Tags: Excellent, Funny, RealizeSome people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.
Tags: Careers, Good, ImagesThat feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
Tags: Feeling, Freedom, LostThe bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
Tags: Big, Rock, WantedThe beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
Tags: Beauty, Says, SomeoneThe writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
Tags: Experience, Pretty, WritingThere's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
Tags: Best, Great, YourselfThere's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
Tags: Control, Public, YourselfWhen you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
Tags: Guitar, Looking, TuneA song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
Tags: Easy, Simple, TryArtists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
Tags: Artist, Nature, TogetherI have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.
Tags: Time, Women, WritingI think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
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Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Tags: American, Public, TimeThe video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
Tags: Great, Once, StartIt's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
Tags: WantingI draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
Tags: Family, Friends, MeanYou can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
Tags: Making, Mistakes, PublicIt's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
Tags: Heart, Music, PrettyNo matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
Tags: Matter, Middle, SpringYour art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
Tags: Art, Nature, WisdomA lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
Tags: Music, Seem, WearingBeck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
Tags: Him, Said, SongHowever I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
Tags: Goes, However, ThoughtI become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.
Tags: Become, Less, TryI didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
Tags: Desire, Making, MusicI don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
Tags: Great, Trying, WriteI don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.
Tags: Regrets, Thinking, TimeI hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
Tags: Business, Hate, Nature