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You have to reinvent yourself.

John Mellencamp

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John Mellencamp
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 7
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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'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.
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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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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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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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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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This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.
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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
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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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Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!
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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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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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My voice has gotten better from smoking.
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To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.
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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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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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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 think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.
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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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