Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Things

Army

" When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite. "

" My old man worked for Pan American. "

" 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. "

" I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan. "

" I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around. "

" Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from rig to rig, and I'd live on a platform out at sea. "

" 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. "

" I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art. "

" The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. "

" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "

" 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. "

" That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan. "

Kris Kristofferson

Dylan

Bob Dylan

" Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites. "

Kris Kristofferson

Love

You

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

" I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me. "

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Age

Best

" I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better. "

" I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know. "

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

" As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark. "

" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "

" Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. "

" When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. "

" Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week. "

" I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself. "

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

Kris Kristofferson

Life

Doing The Right Thing