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My voice has gotten better from smoking.
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
John Cougar
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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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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 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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I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.
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This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.
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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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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 would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us he has filled this country with hatred.
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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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When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
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I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.
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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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Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.
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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
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There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.
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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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The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
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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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With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.
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Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!
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