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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I'm too much of a big 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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Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
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I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
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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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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
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Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
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I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.
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Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
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We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.
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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.
