Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
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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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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 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's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.
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Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from rig to rig, and I'd live on a platform out at sea.
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I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.
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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 ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible.
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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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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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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 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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The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.
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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'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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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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Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
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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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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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They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.