Shawn Colvin Quotes

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed. Without music, I could not get through. Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got. The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know. What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality. I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other. John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well. I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do. I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.