John Prine Quotes
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If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.
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I'm not good at remembering things, in general.
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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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Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
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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 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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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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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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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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Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.
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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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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 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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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 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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'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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There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
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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 can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.
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When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.
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I like doing chores.