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John Mellencamp
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John Mellencamp
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 7
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Indiana
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With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.
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My voice has gotten better from smoking.
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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 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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Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.
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The Internet is the wrong direction for music.
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When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
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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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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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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
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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 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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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'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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