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What is there to be afraid of...

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

John Mellencamp 110 quotes

As I've matured as a songwrit...

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

John Mellencamp 110 quotes

My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to ...

My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to make a more even record and get away from juvenile topics like 'Hurts So Good.' But I also knew if I wanted to continue, I had to have more hits.

John Mellencamp 110 quotes

If you hide information from ...

If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.

John Mellencamp 110 quotes

The CD, it should be noted, w...

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.

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People in Indiana have known ...

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

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A lot of Woody Guthrie's song...

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

John Mellencamp 110 quotes

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks...

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

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I went to New York in 1974, t...

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

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It sounds funny, but I always...

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.

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Hanging out is a waste of tim...

Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.

John Mellencamp 110 quotes

If fans are going to turn on ...

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

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I couldn't have recorded this...

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

John Mellencamp 110 quotes

Broadway is a very different ...

Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

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Music was so important to the...

Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'

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This cycle of make a record, ...

This cycle of make a record, tour has been going on for 20 years now. I don't even know why I do it sometimes. Do I need more money? Do I need more platinum and gold records? The only thing I can think of is ego.

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If I laugh a couple of times ...

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

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I was born with Spina bifida....

I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.

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Everything I have is for sale...

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

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One quality of a good songwri...

One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.

John Mellencamp 110 quotes

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