Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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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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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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'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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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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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 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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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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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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'This Old Road' somehow seems to get better the older you get.
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
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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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I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.
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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 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 hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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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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Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.