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"51 Kris Kristofferson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 22 June 1936 | Musician | Actor |
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Another Freedom Just Left
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Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.

Free But Nothing Worth
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Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

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

Against Away Current Get
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If you can't get out of something, get into it.

Get Out Something You
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Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Cause End Heart In The End
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Anything Better God He
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Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
Another Freedom Get Just
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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.

Against Air Air Force Always
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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.'

Better Father First Great
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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.

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

Been Boy First I Think
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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.

Eight Everything Experiences Good
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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.

Anyway Good Had Heart
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I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

Boxed Gloves Golden How
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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.

Acting Anybody Brando Christ
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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
Cut Forgotten Never Record
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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Ambition Creative Life Necessary
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The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Before Closest Come Could
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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

Children Missing Older One Thing
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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.

After Felt Had Home
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

Album Always Could Cut
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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.

Bad Boxing Football Got
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Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody.

Discourage Ever Hate Idol
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To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.
Devote Doing Doing The Right Thing Enough
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I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.

Being Creative Dirt Hope
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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

Am Big Big Family Each
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I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.

Feel Good I Feel I Feel Like
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I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.
About Back Enjoy Life
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I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

Big Box Fast Football
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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.

Autobiographical Better Certainly Everything
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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.

About Best Different Different Levels
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When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.

Gulf Help Just Make
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
Expectations Free Having Live
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There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done.

Back Done Iraqi Iraqi People
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I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.

About Anxiety Controlling Life
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Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Emotions Just Melody Moves
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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.

Better Else Good Like
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I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

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

Attention Focus Honestly I Can
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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.

About Because Been Hard
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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.

Almost Because Been Cash
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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.

Being Better Father Go
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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.

Another Back Care Don't Care
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I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Chose Fought Freedom Had
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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.

Age Behind Best Better
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I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.
According Art Dies I Think
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

Act Being Cover Dylan
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I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.

Bob Bob Dylan Dylan Greatest
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I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

Arriving Cash Exciting Grew
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Kris Kristofferson Quotes & Sayings