John Mellencamp Quotes - Page 4

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• Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?

  John Mellencamp

  Hurt, Fall, President

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• Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

  John Mellencamp

  Teacher, School, Fighting

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• I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, People

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• All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

  John Mellencamp

  Hobbies, Painting

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• Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

  John Mellencamp

  Dixie, Said, Chicks

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• People have the right to say what they want to.

  John Mellencamp

  People, Want

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• People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

  John Mellencamp

  Years, People, Four

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• This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• 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

  Beach, Thinking, Kind

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• 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

  Ivory Tower, Racism, Towers

  "John Mellencamp takes a hard look at race issues on Cuttin' Heads" by Eric Schumacher Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. October 15, 2001.

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• You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.

  John Mellencamp

  Play, Hollies, Band

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• Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

  John Mellencamp

  Friendship, Giving, Looks

  Song: Danger List, Album: American Fool

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• You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

  John Mellencamp

  Friendship, Best Buddies, Buddy

  Song: Check It Out

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• The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

  John Mellencamp

  Death, Dream, Dust

  Song: Human Wheels

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• With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

  John Mellencamp

  Philosophy, Lines, Satisfied

  Song: I Ain't Ever Satisfied, Album: Whenever We Wanted

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• Nobody heard anything ahead of time.

  John Mellencamp

  Heard, Ahead Of Time

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.

  John Mellencamp

  Nostalgic, Persons

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Chicago Tribune Interview, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The greatest thing that ever happened to (my career) was the breakdown of the record companies, because there were no more stupid questions about how many hits are on the next record. It was very liberating.

  John Mellencamp

  Stupid, Careers, Records

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

  John Mellencamp

  Internet, Wrong Direction

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• Nobody wants to make great albums now because nobody wants to buy them and there's no place to sell them.

  John Mellencamp

  Albums, Want, Sells

  "'The Coug' is dead to John Mellencamp". Chicago Tribune Interview, www.thespec.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing.

  John Mellencamp

  Couple, Smart, Guy

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• Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

  John Mellencamp

  Records, Digital, Company

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• I remember the first time I saw a CD, a technology guy brought one to my house and said we will be able to sell millions and millions of players, and people will have to restock their record collections. It was all about money. It was all about how much money we would make, "we" being "him."

  John Mellencamp

  Technology, Player, Cds

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• 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

  Silly, Years, Age

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• To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

  John Mellencamp

  Obvious, Doomed, Remarks

  Song: Another Sunny Day 12, 25, Album: Dance Naked

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