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" I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. "
John Mellencamp
I Can
Songs
Worry
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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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" 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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" 'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like 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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" In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that. "
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" A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness. "
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" Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive. "
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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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" 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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Hands
Nothing
" People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four. "
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" When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions. "
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" I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians. "
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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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First
He
" I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs. "
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Age
Way
" I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion. "
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Time
Need
" Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.' "
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My Friend
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" 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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" 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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Regret
People
" I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. "
John Mellencamp
Comment
I See
See
" My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material. "
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Thought
Wealth
People
" My best songs come from a place outside myself. "
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Best
Come
" This is about black people selling out other black people. "
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Out
" I believe in something, even if it's just me. "
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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 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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" All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that. "
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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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" 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. "
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Age
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" What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible. "
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Fail
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