John Prine Quotes
Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.
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I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
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For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
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It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
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I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
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To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.
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There were guys in wingtips that just didn't fly.
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Never underestimate the power of a woman.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.
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Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]
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Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.
