American - Musician | October 7, 1951 -
Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.
John Mellencamp
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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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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
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I'm as left-wing as you can get.
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A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.
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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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Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.
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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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For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.
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When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.
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This cycle of make a record, tour has been going on for 20 years now. I don't even know why I do it sometimes. Do I need more money? Do I need more platinum and gold records? The only thing I can think of is ego.
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A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.
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