John Mellencamp
Musician
1951-10-07
Books by John Mellencamp
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Quotes by John Mellencamp
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they say life goes on long after the thrill of living
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they say life goes on long after the thrill of living
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I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
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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. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.
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Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.
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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.
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This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
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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.
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A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.
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Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.
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I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
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