Top 71 Kristofferson Quotes
#1. Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
Idina Menzel
#2. That's the cool thing, when I get to work with people I love. The biggest has probably been Kris Kristofferson on 'Bloodworth.'
William Earl Brown
#3. Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point.
Jeffrey Steele
#4. I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
Peter Berg
#5. When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.
Tom T. Hall
#6. I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
Christian Kane
#7. Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
Todd Snider
#8. I was writing with different people in Nashville - whoever I could. Eddie Hinton came on the scene about 1963, and about four years later we wrote a ton of songs together. I drifted around, but Eddie and I had some cuts through the '60s and '70s. I went on the road with Kris Kristofferson in 1970.
Donnie Fritts
#9. I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.
Lesley Ann Warren
#10. We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune.
Ronnie Wood
#11. I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great.
Lee Hazlewood
#13. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#14. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#15. Being organized is not about being company-ready 24/7. It's about being able to find what you need and restore order quickly.
Monika Kristofferson
#17. I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
Kris Kristofferson
#18. Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.
Kris Kristofferson
#20. It's far better to do less and do it well,
than to do too much and do it poorly.
Sometimes you have to push yourself away from the table and say, "I'm full.
Monika Kristofferson
#21. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#22. I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.
Kris Kristofferson
#24. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#25. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#27. 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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#28. Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.
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#31. There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
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#32. Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.
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#33. If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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#34. 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.'
Kris Kristofferson
#36. Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won't do anyone any good you are stretched too thin.
Monika Kristofferson
#37. Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson
#39. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#40. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert
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#42. I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.
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#44. The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.
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#45. 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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#46. Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
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#48. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#49. Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.
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#51. The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.
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#52. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#54. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#56. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#57. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#58. Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.
Kris Kristofferson
#59. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#61. You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.
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#63. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#64. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#66. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#68. I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.
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#69. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#70. 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.
Kris Kristofferson
#71. 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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