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In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
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If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.
John Mellencamp
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I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.
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I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.
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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
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You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
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I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.
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There are a lot of actors who try to get records made and try to make record deals, and everybody goes, 'Ugh.' It used to be expected in the entertainment business. I mean look at Sinatra, Bing Crosby. All these guys started out as singers.
John Mellencamp
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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
John Mellencamp -
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.
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For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.
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It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
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Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
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I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.
John Mellencamp
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A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.
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I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.
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Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
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I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.
John Mellencamp -
What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.
John Mellencamp -
I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
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This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
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Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'
John Mellencamp -
My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
John Mellencamp -
This is about black people selling out other black people.
John Mellencamp