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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
John Mellencamp
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John Mellencamp
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 7
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Seymour
Indiana
John Cougar Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp
Johnny Cougar
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Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
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The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing.
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This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
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For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?
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The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.
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I've never had anybody produce my records. I've always produced my own records. I've worked with a guy for a while who was an engineer who helped me produce records, but I've always made my own records. I'm a control fanatic. I've got to control everything.
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I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.
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Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?
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Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.
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I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
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The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
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Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.
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Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
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Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away
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I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.
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It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!
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