John Prine Quotes

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• I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going…
• I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in…
• Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night.…
• I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like…
• I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.
• If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.
• Now Jesus don't like killin'/No matter what the reason's for.
• I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really…
• Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.
• MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD…
• Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find…
• Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.
• You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all…
• Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.
• Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.
• The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

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