Song Quotes by Kris Kristofferson

9 Song quotes by Kris Kristofferson

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Kris Kristofferson’s seasoned lyricism lands on Song in nine succinct lines. Though the list is short, it gives a clear sense of his reflective, storyteller’s voice.

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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

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Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

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Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.

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I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.

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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to…

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Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day.…

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Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of…

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I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and…

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I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

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That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.

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Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.

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Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original,…

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Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

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What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And…

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I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were…

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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it…

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The older I get, the less conservative I become.

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I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

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Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over.…

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I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

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Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.

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The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself…

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