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" I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. "
Kris Kristofferson
Day
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My Life
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" That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan. "
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" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "
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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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" If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. "
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" '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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" Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights. "
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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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" 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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" I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life. "
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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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Past
" I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it. "
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" 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. "
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Right
" 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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Age
Best
" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "
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Really
Me
" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "
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" Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music. "
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Country
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" I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. "
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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. "
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Art
Song
Me
" 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
" 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
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" I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box. "
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" I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.' "
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" 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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" It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse. "
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" Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend. "
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" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "
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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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Week
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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 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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