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I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.
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My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.
Kris Kristofferson
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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..
Kris Kristofferson -
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Kris Kristofferson -
Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
Kris Kristofferson -
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.
Kris Kristofferson -
'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.
Kris Kristofferson -
I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
Kris Kristofferson
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Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter.
Kris Kristofferson -
I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time.
Kris Kristofferson -
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.
Kris Kristofferson -
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
Kris Kristofferson -
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.
Kris Kristofferson -
It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.
Kris Kristofferson
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I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it.
Kris Kristofferson