Shawn Colvin

Colvin, Shawn Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Heart & Friends: Home for the Holidays

  2013, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen A.K.A. Doc Pomus

  2012, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Treme Musical Performances: I'm Gone

  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Buddy Holly: Listen to Me - The Ultimate Buddy Party

  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards

  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Crazy

  2008, role: actress , character name: Kitty Wells
• Play in Full Screen Park City: Where Music Meets Film

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Paul Simon: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

  2007, role: actress , character name: Performer
• Play in Full Screen Ringo Rama

  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Chris Botti & Friends: Night Sessions Live in Concert

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Broadway's Best

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Heartbreakers

  2001, role: actress , character name: Minister at Second Wedding
• Play in Full Screen Music in High Places

  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell

  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself - Performer
• Play in Full Screen Asleep at the Wheel: The Making of 'Ride with Bob'

  1999, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The 40th Annual Grammy Awards

  1998, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Elmopalooza!

  1998, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The 1998 Billboard Music Awards

  1998, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The 39th Annual Grammy Awards

  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself - Performer
• Play in Full Screen The 19th Annual CableACE Awards

  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music

  1997, role: actress , character name: Performer
• Play in Full Screen The Gift of Song

  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Grace of My Heart

  1996, role: actress , character name: Commune Guitarist
• Play in Full Screen In the Spotlight: Mary Chapin Carpenter

  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The 36th Annual Grammy Awards

  1994, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration

  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Shawn Colvin:

"We do family stuff. Tonight we're in Santa Rosa, and then we drive all night to Anaheim, which is good news for my daughter ‚ because you know what's there. We do family stuff. We went to Sea World in San Diego, and we figure out stuff to do. And if not, there's always the hotel pool."

"We do family stuff, ... Tonight we're in Santa Rosa, and then we drive all night to Anaheim, which is good news for my daughter ‚ because you know what's there. We do family stuff. We went to Sea World in San Diego, and we figure out stuff to do. And if not, there's always the hotel pool."

"All Through the Night."

"I was involved in all of it,"

"I think when you have a record that makes money, there's pressure, sure, ... The label wanted another big seller, and I did, too."

"Sunny Came Home."

"I told her we're not as proud of that in public as we are at home. She looked around and said it's OK because everyone there was Chinese. I guess, in her mind, she farted in English."

"Music is a healing force. That's what good art is. That's what art is. I shouldn't say 'good' because that's an entirely personal call. It's magic, ... What is music? Where does it come from? We have the ability to take these instruments and voices and make these notes with them and do these things with them. What the heck is that? It's magic. It does what nothing else can do."

"Without music, I could not get through."

"I think that the indefinable space between happy and sad is the most moving and compelling place for an artist to be. If there's anything I consistently strive for, it's a melancholy limbo."

"One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't."

"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."

"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."

"I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people."

"Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long."

"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."

Shawn Colvin