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Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
American Musician
Born: Jun 22, 1936
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You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. Kris Kristofferson
Good You Throw Get Current Against Paddle Away
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. Kris Kristofferson
Work Love Truth Heart Cause Passion Laughter Matters Tell Sing End In The End
If you can't get out of something, get into it. Kris Kristofferson
You Out Something Get
When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself. Kris Kristofferson
Myself Me Thinking Out Gulf Through Wrote Make Mexico Just Middle Oil Help Platform Night
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. Kris Kristofferson
Life You Creative Ambition Points Selfishness Where Your Necessary
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. Kris Kristofferson
Music Myself Losing Lose Before Could Football Come Knowing Closest Loved Why
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. Kris Kristofferson
God Women Better Made Think He Himself Than Anything Kept
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. Kris Kristofferson
Work Love Truth Time Good Heart Passion Laughter Made Rules Those Says Tell One Time Had Sing Up List Anyway Start
I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life. Kris Kristofferson
Life Anxiety Own Controlling About My Own Really
I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them. Kris Kristofferson
Home Think Other Gave Interview Everything Later Would Some Cash Johnny Johnny Cash Throw Take He Wrote Sure Said Got Demos Lake Them Ever Million
Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. Kris Kristofferson
Time Made Every About Experiencing Album
My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. Kris Kristofferson
Me Like Really Albums
I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it. Kris Kristofferson
Life Seriously My Life Looking Looking Back Enjoy Thinking Back About Write Starting
Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. Kris Kristofferson
Emotions Words Melody Just Moves Your
There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing. Kris Kristofferson
Motorcycle Me Travel Fellini Around Affected His La Where Little Really Film Thing
Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend. Kris Kristofferson
Crazy You Man Integrity Word Father Country White White House Think Wild Our Guest Would Would-Be One Word Someone Cash Guy Johnny He Like Know House Read Rock Doing Friend Legacy Graham Being Grew Crazy Things Who Original Billy Things
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
You College Face Mirror Half Looking Bat Though Tell Kind Scar See Some Scars Wrinkled Football Got Up Gets After Story While Them Really Your Baseball Hardly Playing Two
The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be. Kris Kristofferson
Time Great Me Valuable Will Valuable Thing Seems Most Been Thing
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
Time Home Long Long Time Thirty Had Like Felt Leave Opposite Just After Now
Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody. Kris Kristofferson
Time Me Hate World Somebody Those Kind Would One Time Scary Said Idol Discourage Want Wanted Shows Ever Thing Last
I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art. Kris Kristofferson
Art Respect Think Society According Dies Lives
There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy. Kris Kristofferson
Saying Time First Half Stage About Policy Talking Foreign Foreign Policy Lot American Controversial American Foreign Policy Nicaragua Things
Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. Kris Kristofferson
Worth Free Nothing
Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get. Kris Kristofferson
Freedom Word Older Seems Another Truer Get Just
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
Life Work Love Family You Grateful Live No Regrets Had Feel Since Know Doing Nashville Came Been Very Regrets Ever
I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line. Kris Kristofferson
Life Love Music Time People Mind Finish Line Think Frame Ears Kids Laughing Kind Finish Feel Days Like Always Got Coming Odd Line Been Surrounded Close Than Did Eight Happier Which Lucky Lived Ever By The People
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