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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. "

John Mellencamp

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" I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians. "

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" Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song. "

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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 couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off. "

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" I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace. "

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" Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly. "

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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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" Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out. "

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" I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. "

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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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" Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing. "

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

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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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" I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it. "

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" I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion. "

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" I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. "

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

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

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" If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems. "

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

John Mellencamp

" Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive. "

John Mellencamp

" 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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" What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other. "

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" I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company. "

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" When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally. "

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" We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at. "

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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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" I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. "

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