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

Kris Kristofferson

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" 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. "

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

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" To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that. "

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

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" I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose. "

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" 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. "

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" I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them. "

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" I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life. "

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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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" The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music. "

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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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" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "

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" Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody. "

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

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" I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me. "

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" I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. "

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" 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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" There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. "

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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 think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that. "

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

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