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Creativity Quote by Sheryl Crow

"I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger"

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Name-dropping can be crass, but Sheryl Crow frames it as gratitude, not bragging: “really, really blessed” is the rhetorical buffer that makes the Dylan-and-Jagger flex feel human. The repetition does work here. It sounds like someone still mildly stunned by her own trajectory, which is part of Crow’s long-running appeal: she’s a mainstream rock figure who’s always positioned herself as adjacent to myth, not swallowed by it.

The intent is clear: locate her career inside a lineage. Dylan and Jagger aren’t just famous collaborators; they’re living shorthand for “the canon.” By invoking them, Crow quietly argues for her own legitimacy in an industry that has often treated women of her era as playlist-friendly rather than historically consequential. She’s not claiming to be them. She’s claiming proximity to the room where the culture gets decided.

The subtext is also about survival. Crow came up in a 90s pop-rock ecosystem where authenticity was constantly audited, especially for artists who could write hooks and still play the guitar. Sharing a stage with Dylan and Jagger is the kind of credential that shuts down the “manufactured” narrative without sounding defensive.

Context matters: this is legacy-talk in the streaming age, when “relevance” is measured in spikes and virality. Crow reaches for a different metric: communion. The line isn’t just about star power; it’s about being welcomed, briefly, into rock’s inner sanctum - and still having the humility to call it luck.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Crow, Sheryl. (2026, January 16). I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-really-really-blessed-i-got-to-perform-95215/

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Crow, Sheryl. "I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-really-really-blessed-i-got-to-perform-95215/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-really-really-blessed-i-got-to-perform-95215/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow (born February 11, 1962) is a Musician from USA.

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