Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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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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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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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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'This Old Road' somehow seems to get better the older you get.
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Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
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I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.
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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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I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.
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I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.
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Comin' close together with a feelin' that I've never known before, in my time.She ain't ashamed to be a woman, or afraid to be a friend.I don't know the answer to the easy way she opened every door in my mind.But dreamin' was as easy as believin' it was never gonna end.And lovin' her was easier than anything I'll ever do again.
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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 never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.
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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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If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?
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There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.
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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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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 have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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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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I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.
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I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.
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If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.