Kris Kristofferson Quotes - Page 2

Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

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

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.

Well I work up Sunday morning, With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt, And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, So I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes, And found my cleanest dirty shirt. An' I shaved my face and combed my hair, An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

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

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

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

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.

When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.

The heart is what matters most of all

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

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

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

I'll only live 'til I die

Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...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.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

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.