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" I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know. "
Kris Kristofferson
Know
My Own
Never
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" I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box. "
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" Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week. "
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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 watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. "
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" I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. "
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" I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it. "
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Life
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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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You
" There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done. "
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Pay
People
Back
" I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art. "
Kris Kristofferson
Art
Think
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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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Good
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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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Influence
Music
Country
" I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville. "
Kris Kristofferson
Family
Grateful
Life
" I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote. "
Kris Kristofferson
Song
Cut
Forgotten
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Cash
Think
Lake
" 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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Never
Week
Down
" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "
Kris Kristofferson
Life
Cash
Always
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Me
Day
Great
" To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter. "
Kris Kristofferson
Like
Things
Army
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Oil
Live
Right
" Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time. "
Kris Kristofferson
Out
Better
Getting Better
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Football
College
Baseball
" 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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Thought
Creative
Great
" My old man worked for Pan American. "
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Man
Worked
Pan
" There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. "
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Creative
You
Your
" 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. "
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Back
Listen
Song
" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "
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Play
Playwright
Like
" I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words. "
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Moment
Words
Forever
" I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters. "
Kris Kristofferson
Having
Remember
White
" I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible. "
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Cash
Friends
Heroes