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" I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. "

John Mellencamp

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" I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere. "

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" I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums. "

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" You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice. "

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" People have the right to say what they want to. "

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" It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about. "

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" I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting. "

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" I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? "

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" As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine. "

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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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" 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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" If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect. "

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" This is about black people selling out other black people. "

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" When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. "

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" Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. "

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" I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out. "

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" All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that. "

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" I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness. "

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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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" I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had. "

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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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" I'm as left-wing as you can get. "

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