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" A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business. "
John Mellencamp
Young
Age
Business
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" I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums. "
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" Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly. "
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" Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album. "
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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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" We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing. "
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" Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public. "
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" I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere. "
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Seen
Beautiful
" When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that's what we like about them. When you talk about acting, you really have to respond to somebody's personality. "
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Talk
Play
" If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to. "
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Fans
Because
" Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it. "
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Place
Run
" People have the right to say what they want to. "
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Want
People
" 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. "
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Song
Songs
Other
" When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it. "
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Hate
American
America
" Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared. "
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Would
Before
Could
" This is about black people selling out other black people. "
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Selling
Other
Out
" 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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Want
Painting
Hole
" A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness. "
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Painting
Even
Beautiful
" I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds. "
John Mellencamp
Think
Fish
Healthy
" One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended. "
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Great
Good
Said
" I'm as left-wing as you can get. "
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Get
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" If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people. "
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Day
Good
Happy
" People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four. "
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Indiana
Me
Years
" I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians. "
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Politicians
Guy
" As I get older, I have a different look on life. I just try to be a little more tolerant and a little bit more centered about what's going on around me and not so emotional. "
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Life
Emotional
" I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. "
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Comment
I See
See
" When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. "
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Enemy
Playing
" Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did. "
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Man
Regret
People
" 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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Who
Guy
Authority
" Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.' "
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Radio
My Friend
Friend
" I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles. "
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Work
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