Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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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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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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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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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.
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Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.
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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.
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It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.
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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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Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter.
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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
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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 really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.