John Prine Quotes
I embraced loneliness as a kid. I know what loneliness is. When you're at the end of your rope. I never forget those feelings.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.
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These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I'm not eating for the fat kid inside me.
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When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.
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I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
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I'm always looking for ways to connect myself with American people and that American feeling. I'm trying to pick up on the feeling of places, like the Los Angeles feeling or the New York feeling... Los Angeles is much better for me that way.
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Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?
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I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.
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I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.
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I embraced loneliness as a kid. I know what loneliness is. When you're at the end of your rope. I never forget those feelings.
