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If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.

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John Mellencamp
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 7
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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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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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Most people in life, give up too early.
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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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We lost our way a long time ago with technology. Just because something is an advancement by going digital - that was a huge (expletive) mistake. It was a way for people to make money, but it sure didn't improve sound or quality of record making. It made it faster, cheaper, but it isn't as durable.
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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'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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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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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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She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.
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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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This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.
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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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Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
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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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