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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. "

John Mellencamp

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" 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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" Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out. "

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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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" It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about. "

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" Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared. "

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" When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions. "

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" Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.' "

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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. "

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" If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems. "

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" I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs. "

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" 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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" I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded. "

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" Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing. "

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" I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. "

John Mellencamp

" 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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" American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood. "

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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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" Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly. "

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" I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion. "

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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. "

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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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" I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society. "

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" When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally. "

John Mellencamp

" My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious. "

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" I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. "

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" If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night. "

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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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" This is about black people selling out other black people. "

John Mellencamp

" I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds. "

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" 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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