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Kris Kristofferson
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Kris Kristofferson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 22
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
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Film Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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Brownsville
Texas
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More quotes by Kris Kristofferson
If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.
Kris Kristofferson
When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.
Kris Kristofferson
Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.
Kris Kristofferson
Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.
Kris Kristofferson
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.
Kris Kristofferson
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert
Kris Kristofferson
I want you to know I'm an Army brat I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there.
Kris Kristofferson
As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Kris Kristofferson
Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.
Kris Kristofferson
There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.
Kris Kristofferson
I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
Kris Kristofferson
The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.
Kris Kristofferson
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
Kris Kristofferson
Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.
Kris Kristofferson
I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.
Kris Kristofferson
Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.
Kris Kristofferson
Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.
Kris Kristofferson
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson
Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.
Kris Kristofferson
If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.
Kris Kristofferson
