American - Musician | June 22, 1936 -
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
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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.
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I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.
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I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.
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I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.
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Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.
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I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.
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That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.
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