Top 48 Kris Kristofferson Quotes

#1. I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

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#2. The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

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#3. You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

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#4. Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

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#5. The heart is what matters most of all

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#6. The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

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#7. Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.

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#8. The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

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#9. I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.

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#10. I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there.

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#11. I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.

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#12. I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.

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#13. Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.

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#14. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

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#15. His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

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#16. You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

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#17. Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

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#18. I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

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#19. There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

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#20. I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

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#21. I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

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#22. When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

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#23. The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

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#24. Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

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#25. I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

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#26. Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the
downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln
with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

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#27. The number one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule and you will be sorry.

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#28. If you can't get out of something, get into it.

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#29. I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

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#30. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

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#31. I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

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#32. Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

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#33. I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

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#34. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.

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#35. If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.

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#36. Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

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#37. I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

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#38. Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

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#39. I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

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#40. There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

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#41. Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.

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#42. If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

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#43. I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

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#44. The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

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#45. Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

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#46. I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.

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#47. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert

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#48. I'll only live 'til I die

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