Composed Quotes

“Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.”
― Rosanne Cash, Composed: A Memoir

“For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.”
― Rosanne Cash, Composed: A Memoir

“I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.”
― Rosanne Cash, Composed: A Memoir

“We all need art and music like we need blood and oxygen. The more exploitative, numbing, and assaulting popular culture becomes, the more we need the truth of a beautifully phrased song, dredged from a real person’s depth of experience, delivered in an honest voice; the more we need the simplicity of paint on canvas, or the arc of a lonely body in the air, or the photographer’s unflinching eye. Art, in the larger sense, is the lifeline to which I cling in a confusing, unfair, sometimes dehumanizing world.”
― Rosanne Cash, Composed: A Memoir

“pernicious way possible on a daily basis. I don’t remember”
― Rosanne Cash, Composed: A Memoir