John Mellencamp Song Quotes

#1. I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.

Dan Hill

#2. We are the transition from one education to the other.

Alfred Rosenberg

#3. If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

Lykke Li

#4. Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

Bill O'Reilly

#5. 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

#6. Everything I see and hear ... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

John Mellencamp

#7. 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?

John Mellencamp

#8. I concluded, that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other falsity, but a solid, true thing witnessed while in a weakened highly agitated state.

Yann Martel

#9. Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

John Mellencamp

#10. I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

John Mellencamp

#11. You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

John Mellencamp

#13. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Michael Moore

#14. A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

John Mellencamp

#15. One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

Gene Weingarten