John Prine Quotes
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!
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The host of 'Face The Nation,' Bob Schieffer, was an important figure in my childhood years. Every Sunday in the fall, he occupied my family's time after church and before the NFL pregame shows.
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Creating music based on art and giving away from your spirit is more important than making a living.
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I'm like a lot of people in my generation. Eventually I went to get an electric guitar.
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There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
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Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
