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" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Out
Better
Getting Better
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" If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. "
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" 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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" That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan. "
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" I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war. "
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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 Can
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" To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing. "
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Me
Doing The Right Thing
" I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose. "
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" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "
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Behind
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" 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. "
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Wait
Me
" The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be. "
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Time
Great
I Can
" I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it. "
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Thinking
Life
Looking Back
" I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. "
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Writing
Know
Boy
" I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art. "
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Art
Think
Society
" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "
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Made
About
Every
" When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero. "
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Gone
Cash
Hero
" '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. "
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Money
Heaven
True
" I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters. "
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Having
Remember
White
" 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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Got
Wife
Trouble
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Long
Time
Truth
" I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good. "
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Feel
Looking
Good
" 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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Week
City
I Can
" I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan. "
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Greatest
Thought
Thing
" I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. "
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Thought
Creative
Great
" Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music. "
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Influence
Music
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" 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. "
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Love
Work
Truth
" 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. "
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Family
Love
Morning
" There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy. "
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Stage
American
Saying
" My old man worked for Pan American. "
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Man
Worked
Pan
" 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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Important
Think
Desire
" 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