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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Seymour
Indiana
John Cougar Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp
Johnny Cougar
John Cougar
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Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.
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Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.
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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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I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.
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It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!
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It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
John Mellencamp
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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Most people in life, give up too early.
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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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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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I do things my way and I pay a high price.
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The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
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Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away
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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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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.
John Mellencamp
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 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.
John Mellencamp
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'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.
John Mellencamp
To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.
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