John Mellencamp Quotes
Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Garry Kasparov -
That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.
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'American Idol' was an extremely expensive show.
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I think the Clintons are going to make their decision based on the merits. And their focus, like mine, is on middle class jobs. We`re in a different world than 1994. The China we dealt with in 1994 is a lot different than the China today in 2015.
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Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'
