Rodney Crowell Quotes
Unfortunately, 9/11 crystallized some misconceptions that made some people unable to realize that really healthy dissent is in truth more supportive of those poor soldiers being sent to get slaughtered than this blind allegiance to a certain political regime... It's like the Earth is flat and we're gonna walk off the edge of it. It causes me a certain amount of dismay. I realize that Americans are innocent -- only seven percent of our population even owns a passport. But man, I'll tell you, I don't think corporate America and the political regimes meet in an innocent place, and they don't mind using the innocence of Americans in a greedy way. 
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Crystallized | Misconceptions | People | Unable | Realize |
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Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of 'What people think of me is none of my business.' So I got really hooked on him.
- Rodney Crowell
I wanted to dismantle any show-business pretense and take this thing straight as a human being... So I said, 'I'm gonna write this, and where I think I'm great, I'm gonna say it, and where I think I'm not, I'm gonna say it. And I'm gonna try to love and accept myself along the way.'
- Rodney Crowell
Guy came to my house, walked in the door, and the first thing he said to me was, 'Shut up,' ... And when Guy takes that kind of stance, you listen. He said, 'We've got something to do.' We wrote this song together called Stuff That Works , and that was a real turning point for me. That's when Guy kind of reintroduced me to myself.
- Rodney Crowell