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" Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music. "
Kris Kristofferson
Music
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People
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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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" 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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" I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble. "
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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. "
Kris Kristofferson
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Song
Me
" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "
Kris Kristofferson
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Really
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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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Think
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" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "
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You
Never Give Up
Power
" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "
Kris Kristofferson
Your
Melody
Just
" I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville. "
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Family
Grateful
Life
" I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. "
Kris Kristofferson
Writing
Know
Boy
" 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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Long
Time
Truth
" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "
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You
Paddle
Throw
" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "
Kris Kristofferson
Play
Playwright
Like
" That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan. "
Kris Kristofferson
Like
Dylan
Bob Dylan
" I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway. "
Kris Kristofferson
Love
Work
Truth
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Old
Peers
Thinking
" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "
Kris Kristofferson
Made
About
Every
" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "
Kris Kristofferson
Film
Peru
Movie
" I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words. "
Kris Kristofferson
Moment
Words
Forever
" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "
Kris Kristofferson
Life
Cash
Always
" I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got. "
Kris Kristofferson
Me
Bad
Wish
" There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done. "
Kris Kristofferson
Pay
People
Back
" I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age. "
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Me
Age
Best
" I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. "
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Work
Blonde
Week
" By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free. "
Kris Kristofferson
Live
Free
Expectations
" I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me. "
Kris Kristofferson
Dirt
Hope
Keep
" There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing. "
Kris Kristofferson
Little
Film
Motorcycle
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Looking
Wait
Me
" '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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Morning
Writing
Looking
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Family
Love
Morning