John Prine Quotes
You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
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Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
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People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'
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I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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I was debauched in my 20s, but I was fit and healthy in my teens.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
