Top 35 Sheryl Crow Quotes

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.

I don’t set goals for myself too much, but I’m always trying to write that one great song.

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.

There’s so much of it you can’t control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.

I become more seasoned, it’s less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

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.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

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.

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.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You’re finished.

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.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

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 try to conduct my life with a little levity.

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same – it’s a solitary experience.

You can’t be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

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 don’t really cringe over any of my albums.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

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.

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.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I’m wearing as opposed to the music.

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.

People don’t realize that I’m really funny and I’m an excellent bridge player.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.