Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.
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Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff.
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Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from rig to rig, and I'd live on a platform out at sea.
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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
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The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.
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I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'
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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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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.
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If you can't get out of something, get into it.
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I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.
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I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.
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I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.
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I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.
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If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.
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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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The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music.
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Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
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I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.
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Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.
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Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.
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Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody.
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I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.
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I think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that.
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I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. 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. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.