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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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Art

Song

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Yourself

You

" If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself. "

" Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff. "

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

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

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Live

" If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years. "

" They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Looking

Wait

" 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

" I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. "

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

" 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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Day

Great

" I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me. "

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Cash

Nashville

" The older I get, the less conservative I become. "

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

" Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music. "

" I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote. "