John Mellencamp Quotes
Top 85 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.
I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.
For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?
Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.
Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?
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.
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.
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.
Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
Want me to spend the night? Hey lover boy, you know I will, and my best girlfriend lives down the road, together we will thrill you.
Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.
I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.
You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.
She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.
She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.
Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
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.
I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.