John Mellencamp Quotes - Page 2

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• It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

  John Mellencamp

  Responsibility, Media, News

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• Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.

  John Mellencamp

  Future, Understanding, Riding

  Song: Check It Out

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• My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

  John Mellencamp

  Religious, Sunday, Grandmother

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• I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

  John Mellencamp

  Art, Comment, Agree

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• 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

  Song, Thinking, Guy

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• I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

  John Mellencamp

  Country, Hatred, President

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• I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.

  John Mellencamp

  Crazy, Needs, Hey

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• Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

  John Mellencamp

  Religious, Grandma, Hands

  Song: Rain on the Scarecrow

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• 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

  Country, Song, Thinking

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• I fight authority and authority always wins.

  John Mellencamp

  Fighting, Winning, Order

  Song: Authority Song, Album: Uh-Huh, 1983

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• Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

  John Mellencamp

  Peace, Special, Needs

  Song: Now More Than Ever

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• You have to reinvent yourself.

  John Mellencamp

  Reinventing Yourself

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• All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Information, Repeats

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.

  John Mellencamp

  Running, Mean, Cities

  Source: www.today.com

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• You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Smoking, Heroin

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• It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?

  John Mellencamp

  Lonely, Loneliness, Night

  Song: Lonely Ol´ Night

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• Hold on to 16 as long as you can.

  John Mellencamp

  Long

  Song: Jack And Diane

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• I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Bombs, Internet

  "Rocker John Mellencamp likens Internet to A-bomb". www.reuters.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

  John Mellencamp

  Digging, Deeper

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• The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

  John Mellencamp

  Cds, People, Expectations

  "On My Mind: The State of the Music Business" by John Mellencamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.

  John Mellencamp

  Giving Up, People, Age

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Hysteria, People

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• Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

  John Mellencamp

  Depression, Sky, Unemployment

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• There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

  John Mellencamp

  Men, Rock And Roll, Hair

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• She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

  John Mellencamp

  Dream, Philosophy, Fire

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