Rosanne Cash Quotes About Dad

Quotes about: Dad

• My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, War

• Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, People, Use

• When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, Stills

• 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.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, School

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

• The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, Pain, Singing

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

• My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.

  Rosanne Cash

  Art, Dad, Children

  Interview with Antonino D’Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

• My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, Compassion, Judging

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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