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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• 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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• The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.

  John Mellencamp

  Baby, Simple, Reality

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• In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  "Millencamp Talks About Writing Musical With Stephen King" by Archive-Eric-Schumacher-Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2001.

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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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• I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, Worry

  "Mellencamp Talks About Writing Musical With Stephen King" by Eric Schumacher Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2001.

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• I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Years, Voice

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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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• 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

  Song, Couple, Two

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• Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.

  John Mellencamp

  Friendship, Hello, Sometimes

  Song: Check It Out

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• All my friends are so small town.

  John Mellencamp

  Friendship, Towns, Small Town

  Song: Small Town, Album: Scarecrow

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• 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

  Music, Country, Men

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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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• She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.

  John Mellencamp

  Running, Evil, Tears

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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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• 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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• 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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• Mama, why do I always fall for the crazy ones?

  John Mellencamp

  Family, Crazy, Fall

  Song: Crazy Ones, Album: Whenever We Wanted

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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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• 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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• All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

  John Mellencamp

  Stars, Rocks, Guitar

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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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• Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

  John Mellencamp

  Art, Media, Hollywood

  Song: Hand To Hold On To

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• Want me to spend the night? Hey lover boy, you know I will, and my best girlfriend lives down the road, together we will thrill you.

  John Mellencamp

  Girlfriend, Boys, Night

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• I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

  John Mellencamp

  Single, Records, Wheels

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