John Prine Quotes

I grew up in Chicago, but I spent a lot of time down in Kentucky, and Kentucky was about 20 years behind the life that was in Chicago.

John Prine

Time
Behind

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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

J. G. Ballard
- Writing
- Done
- Truth
I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

Harold Ramis
- World
- Great
- Different
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

Barry Mann
- Song
- Creative
- Begin
The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

Nathan Myhrvold
- Time
- Powerful
- Computers
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

Patrick Ewing
- Pain
- Body
- Ready
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

B. B. King
- Women
- Most
- Singer