Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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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 hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
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I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.
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My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.
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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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Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter.
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It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.
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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
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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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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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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
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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.
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I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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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.