Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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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.
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.
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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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If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.
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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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I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.
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And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't badSo I had one more for dessertThen I fumbled through my closet for my clothesAnd found my cleanest dirty shirt..
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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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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.
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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 ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible.
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.
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'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.
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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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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
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To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.
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I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible.
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The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.
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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
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They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.
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If you can't get out of something, get into it.
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He said, we'll take us into town, lay our money downI'll bring you the sweetest thing that growsBecause the fairest ones in sight are bloomin every nightAt a tavern called the Sabre and the Rose..
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Lay your head upon my pillowHold your warm and tender bodyClose to mineHear the whisper of the raindropsBlow softly against my windowMake believe you love meOne more timeFor the good timesFor the good times..