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Most people in life, give up too early.
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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I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
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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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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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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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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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With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.
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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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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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I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.
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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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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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You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.
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You have to reinvent yourself.
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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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All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.
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I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.
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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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Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
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