Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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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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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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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 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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I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
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'This Old Road' somehow seems to get better the older you get.
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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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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 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'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 think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.
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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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Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.
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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 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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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
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My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.
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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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I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand, Let the devil take tomorrow, Lord tonight I need a friend.
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.