John Prine Quotes
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The only reason I figured out I didn't like my old records to listen was I could hear how nervous I was and how uncomfortable I was. And who would want to sit around and listen to yourself being uncomfortable?
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People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.
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I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
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Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.
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If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
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Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
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'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.
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I've been fortunate enough to always have plenty of work, offers to go out and play shows. The hardest thing I have to do is pick out which one I want. For some reason, there's a great demand out there, whether I've got a new record out or not.
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When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
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I never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.
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People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.
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I don't like to be caught without a pick.
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In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.
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You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.
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I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.
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There's nothing I hate more than canceling shows.
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There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
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I'm not good at remembering things, in general.
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I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.
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I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.
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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.
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Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.
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It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it all kind of comes home.
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Along the way, we have had some wonderful adventures and have met thousands of dedicated fans - indeed, many of them feel like family to us now.