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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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" To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that. "

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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? "

Kris Kristofferson

Night

Star

" 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. "

" The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be. "

" I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. "

" As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark. "

" If you can't get out of something, get into it. "

" That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan. "

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Dylan

Bob Dylan

" I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better. "

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

" I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box. "

" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "

" I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art. "

" To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing. "

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Life

Doing The Right Thing

" My old man worked for Pan American. "

" The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. "

" 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. "

" There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "

" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "

" 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

" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "

" I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know. "

" 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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Going

Hell

" I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

Things

Army