Rodney Crowell Quotes

It's a privilege to always be able to create.

I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

You have to squeeze every creative moment and be grateful.

My voice is a gift. My talent is a gift. The life process is a gift. The opportunity for the journey is a gift.

I can create for others.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.

Just to eat is a gift.

All children have creative power.

Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!