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" I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan. "
Kris Kristofferson
Greatest
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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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" I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know. "
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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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" 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've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. "
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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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" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "
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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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" I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. "
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" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "
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" I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around. "
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" Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites. "
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" 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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" If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself. "
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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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" Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music. "
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Country
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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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" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "
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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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" 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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" The older I get, the less conservative I become. "
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" I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world. "
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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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" Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music. "
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" I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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