John Prine Quotes
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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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I don't like to be caught without a pick.
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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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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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I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a thing together.
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My fans have always taken care of me.
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The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.
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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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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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There's nothing I hate more than canceling shows.
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If you listen to people talk, when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.
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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.
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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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In high school, I was a poor student.
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I like doing chores.
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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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I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.
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I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.
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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.
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'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.
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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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There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
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When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.
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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.