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" 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing. "

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" There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was. "

Kris Kristofferson

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Past

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that. "

" I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around. "

" I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places. "

" 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

" There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy. "

" I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war. "

" I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age. "

Kris Kristofferson

Age

Best

" There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing. "

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

" 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 wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got. "

Kris Kristofferson

Bad

Wish

" Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music. "

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

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

Kris Kristofferson

Think

Women

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

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

" 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

" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "

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

" I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose. "

" I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters. "

" 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

Day

Great

" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "

Kris Kristofferson

Play

Playwright

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

" I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.' "

Kris Kristofferson

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