John Prine Quotes
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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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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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Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
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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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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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When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
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There's nothing I hate more than canceling shows.
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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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Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.
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I'm not good at remembering things, in general.
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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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I don't like to be caught without a pick.
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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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When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
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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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People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.
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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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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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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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My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.
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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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There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
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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 can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.