Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.
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The heart is what matters most of all
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There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.
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I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.
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Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
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Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man.
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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
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The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.
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His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.
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Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.
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You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.
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I'll only live 'til I die
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Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it.
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If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.
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Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.
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Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.
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Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.
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The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.
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The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.
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Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.
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Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.
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Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.
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Well I work up Sunday morning, With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt, And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, So I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes, And found my cleanest dirty shirt. An' I shaved my face and combed my hair, An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
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When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.
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Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.
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And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert
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I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.
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