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I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.
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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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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Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away
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I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.
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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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Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
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She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.
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I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.
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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
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You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.
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You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
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I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.
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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
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Unemployment is sky-rocketing deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
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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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I remember the first time I saw a CD, a technology guy brought one to my house and said we will be able to sell millions and millions of players, and people will have to restock their record collections. It was all about money. It was all about how much money we would make, we being him.
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The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
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I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.
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My voice has gotten better from smoking.
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