American - Musician | June 22, 1936 -
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
Kris Kristofferson
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I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
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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.
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Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.
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I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
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I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.
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