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To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.
John Mellencamp
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John Mellencamp
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 7
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Seymour
Indiana
John Cougar Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp
Johnny Cougar
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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 know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.
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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'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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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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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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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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My voice has gotten better from smoking.
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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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It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
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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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The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
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The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.
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Most people in life, give up too early.
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