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John Mellencamp Quotes

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People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They’ve known George Bush four  (John Mellencamp Quotes) This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that’s it  (John Mellencamp Quotes) 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  (John Mellencamp Quotes) 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  (John Mellencamp Quotes) Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. all of a sudden, some of you people think I’m a bad guy?  (John Mellencamp Quotes) If you hide information from people, don’t want people to see the Ten Commandments or don’t want people to hear about Darwin, aren’t we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that’s incorrect  (John Mellencamp Quotes) The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased  (John Mellencamp Quotes) 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 and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That’s how I used to sound in the 80s  (John Mellencamp Quotes) There’s a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He’s got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination  (John Mellencamp Quotes) If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease  (John Mellencamp Quotes) I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) Bob Dylan’s first couple of records in the 60’s weren’t considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) A lot of Woody Guthrie’s songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb,  (John Mellencamp Quotes) I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were so many beautiful songs out. And Bob Dylan was always the ultimate songwriter, and nobody could ever write a song as good as him, and nobody ever has written a song as good as him.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) With no bottom line, it’s hard to know wrong from right. But I ain’t ever satisfied.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) 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?  (John Mellencamp Quotes) Nobody wants to make great albums now because nobody wants to buy them and there’s no place to sell them.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other’s problems.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at  (John Mellencamp Quotes) If I’m painting, I paint every day. I’ll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) I don’t want to be a politician. I don’t like politics. It’s petty; it fights dirty.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) I need a lover that won’t drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn’t that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n’ roll.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They’ve known George Bush four.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn’t very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) Some people say I’m obnoxious and lazy, that I’m uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I’m a real good dancer.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) 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.  (John Mellencamp Quotes) I couldn’t have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn’t have the depth to pull these songs off.  (John Mellencamp Quotes)
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