Latest John Fogerty Quotes from Interviews

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• Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.

  John Fogerty

  Sarcastic, Song, Talking

  Source: www.citypages.com

• Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.

  John Fogerty

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

• When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!

  John Fogerty

  Suicide, Block, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

• I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost like self-hypnosis or mediation. The guitar lick was the transcendental key that unlocked my brain. It freed me. And then it all became easy. It's funny now, because I've had times when it wasn't easy.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

• What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!

  John Fogerty

  Song, Real, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

• I'm just made differently. Man, I just love being an American, I love my country. But it happened to me during the Nixon time, especially pre-Watergate, that as I watched Nixon for the first time in my life I felt shame. I had to analyze myself. What is this emotion? I realized that my government was separate from my country. It was the first time I ever felt ashamed of the government, not the country.

  John Fogerty

  Country, Love Is, Men

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

• All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers' money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people [in the song], too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Long, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

• I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

  John Fogerty

  Country, Song, Strong

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

• I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Past, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.