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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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Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.
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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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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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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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The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.
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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 need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.
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I do things my way and I pay a high price.
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I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.
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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 know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.
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Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
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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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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'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
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