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All Quotes by author - Kris Kristofferson

" As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark. "

" Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life. "

" Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music. "

" By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free. "

" Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music. "

" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "

" Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time. "

" 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. "

" Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get. "

" Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. "

" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "

" 'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants. "

" Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights. "

" I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world. "

" I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other. "

" I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. "

" I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places. "

" I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words. "

" I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better. "

" I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible. "

" I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it. "

" 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? "

" I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around. "

" I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good. "

" 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.' "

" I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line. "

" If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself. "

" If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. "

" If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years. "

" If you can't get out of something, get into it. "

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