John Mellencamp Quotes

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• You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.
• An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.
• Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name; he don't believe in killing at all.
• 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…
• 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…
• My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody…
• I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past.
• There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.
• 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…
• We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.
• Hold on to 16 as long as you can,
• Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
• If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record…
• Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music.…
• Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!
• You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.
• 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…
• Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.
• Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat…
• It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?

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