Rodney Crowell Quotes

I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

I don't consider myself to be a great musician, but my first album was a record hit in Pakistan.

I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.

I'm not really a pianist.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

I'm not a great piano player.

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.

Elvis is this thing, this commodity, and people forget that he was a real person.

I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record.

I would love to be able to say that due to my experience in the music industry, when it comes to the songs, I'm killing it over anybody else, but that is not the case. Everybody in this thing is ridiculously talented to where I don't feel special.