John Prine Quotes
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I was kind of shy as a lad, and a lot of things that made me laugh, I found, did not make other people laugh.
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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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If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.
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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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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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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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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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Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.
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Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.
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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 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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My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.
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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 nothing I hate more than canceling shows.
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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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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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In high school, I was a poor student.
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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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There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
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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.