QUOTES by Kris Kristofferson
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"Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end."
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"I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime."
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"I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives."
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"Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music."
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"I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible."
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"Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites."
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"'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing."
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"I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know."
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"I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words."
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"I think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that."
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"Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from rig to rig, and I'd live on a platform out at sea."
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"To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter."
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"Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling."
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"I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me."
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"It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you."
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"The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru."
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"Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff."
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"They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends."
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"As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark."
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"If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?"
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"Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week."
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"I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible."
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"I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters."
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"I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time."
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"I remember I had an actor friend - a close friend from college - Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, 'Cisco Pike.' It said, 'Have a good time. Ignore the camera.' That was the extent of my training."
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"Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play."
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"What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that."
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"I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places."
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"I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around."
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"I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it."
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"When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself."
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"I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'"
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"I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it."
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"The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music."
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"I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years."
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