Prine's Quotes

#1. My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

Kacey Musgraves

#2. My favorite time in music is probably 1970-75. Still Bill by Bill Withers, Harvest by Neil Young, John Prine's first album, James Taylor's One Man Dog-I hope I can bring the same sort of spirit I hear on those records.

Amos Lee

#3. I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.

John Prine

#4. I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.

Kacey Musgraves

#5. Steady losing means you ain't using what you really think is right

John Prine

#6. Jesus was a good guy, he didn't need this shit.

John Prine

#7. If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

John Prine

#8. I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

John Prine

#9. And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile. It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while. Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone.
No,I'm just tryin' to have me some fun.

John Prine

#10. I'm fascinated by America ... it's so odd.

John Prine

#11. Now Jesus don't like killin'/No matter what the reason's for.

John Prine

#12. I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

Jill Sobule

#13. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

John Prine

#14. Broken hearts and dirty windows
Make life difficult to see
That's why last night and this morning
Always look the same to me

John Prine

#15. You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

John Prine

#16. I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Loudon Wainwright III

#17. Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

John Prine

#18. I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

Roger Waters

#19. Blow up your TV ... throw away your paper ... move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden ... eat a lot of peaches ... try and find Jesus on your own.

John Prine

#20. Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes you laugh and feel light as a feather. With someone like him, you're getting a real picture of a person, a real expression.

Scott Avett

#21. Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

John Prine

#22. A nice girl should never go anywhere without a loaded gun and a big knife." ~ Sarah Agnes Prine

Nancy E. Turner

#23. Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

John Prine

#24. How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

John Prine

#25. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green.Sarah Agnes Prine

Nancy E. Turner

#26. As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

Jill Sobule

#27. Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what's not supposed to be there.

John Prine

#28. Alastair Moock is the second coming of John Prine.

Ellis Paul

#29. MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO ...

John Prine

#30. I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

Kacey Musgraves

#31. If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire this old house would have burned down a long time ago

John Prine

#32. I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

John Prine

#33. Oodles of light what a beautiful sight
Both of God's eyes are shining tonight

John Prine