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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
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
Seymour
Indiana
John Cougar Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp
Johnny Cougar
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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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When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
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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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We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.
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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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I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.
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In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
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The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
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The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.
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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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Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name he don't believe in killing at all.
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The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.
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I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.
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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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You have to reinvent yourself.
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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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You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.
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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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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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