John Mellencamp Quotes
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My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
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Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.
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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.
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Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
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An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.
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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.
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You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.
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I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
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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.
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Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
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You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.
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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.
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The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.
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The Internet is the wrong direction for music.
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I do things my way and I pay a high price.
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I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.
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Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away
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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.
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I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
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It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!
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Mama, why do I always fall for the crazy ones?
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This is about black people selling out other black people.
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There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.
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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
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I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.
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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?
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I've never had anybody produce my records. I've always produced my own records. I've worked with a guy for a while who was an engineer who helped me produce records, but I've always made my own records. I'm a control fanatic. I've got to control everything.
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You have to reinvent yourself.
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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.
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This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
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