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

Kris Kristofferson

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" Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling. "

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" 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? "

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" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "

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" '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. "

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

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" The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it. "

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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. "

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" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "

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" The older I get, the less conservative I become. "

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" I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote. "

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" I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years. "

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" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "

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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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" To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing. "

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" 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. "

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" I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters. "

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" There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was. "

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

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

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" 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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" 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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" I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them. "

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

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

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" 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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" 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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" 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 have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. "

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" There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done. "

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