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John Mellencamp Quotes

Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'

John Mellencamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1951

Topics

Music Great Culture Growing Up Okay

I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

Jessica Williams

Great Think Comedy You Feeling Way

If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.

Best America Know Aunt Going Then

We don't want privacy so much as privacy settings.

Privacy Want Settings Much

I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.

Robert Griffin III

Confidence Best Think Confident You

Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.

Sound Rhythm Bottom Our Much Very

Our European allies need to be able to buy our fuel, or they will fall to enemy domination.

Fall Enemy Will Need Buy Domination

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

Think More Well Artists Contemporary

I'd say the best way to train someone is to remember that you have two ears and one mouth, and use them in that ratio. That's hard to do, and ultimately what we've learned is how many false positives you get from listening to what someone says they're going to do instead of observing what they actually do.

Best Listening Someone Remember You

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

Work Decision Problem Early Way

Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever.

Change History Honor Just Because

Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world.

Identity World Road Place Will Silk

My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.

Doing Biography Keep Even Though

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