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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'This Old Road' somehow seems to get better the older you get.
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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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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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I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.
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I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime.
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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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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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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..
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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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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 watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible.
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
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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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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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Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.
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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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'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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They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.
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Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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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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To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.