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I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.

John Mellencamp

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John Mellencamp
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 7
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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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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.
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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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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 greatest thing that ever happened to (my career) was the breakdown of the record companies, because there were no more stupid questions about how many hits are on the next record. It was very liberating.
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This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.
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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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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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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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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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Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!
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It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
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I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
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Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away
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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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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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Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.
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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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When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
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