Top 153 Quotes & Sayings by Sheryl Crow
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Sheryl Crow.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
However 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.
I got to learn to surf.
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.
I 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.
It'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.
I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
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.
Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Where I fit in is confusing to me.
I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.
The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.
Your 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.
I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.
Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.
Beck 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.
A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.
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!
I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
The 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.
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
Artists 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.
People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
I 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.
A 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.
I 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.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.
I try to conduct my life with a little levity.
When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.
I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
There'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.
I 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.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.
Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.
People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.
Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.
If it makes you happy it can't be that bad
Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.
How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.
I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.
Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.
Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.
It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.
If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?
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