John Mellencamp Quotes

• I don’t want to be a politician. I don’t like politics. It’s petty; it fights dirty.

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• I’m wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it’s MTV and radio, well, they’re great things, but can’t be the only thing. I don’t know that it would work even for the Beatles.

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• We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

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• 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.

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• When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

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• When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy’s hand.

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• You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I’m not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

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• Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I’m a bad guy?

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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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• This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that’s it.

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• This is about black people selling out other black people.

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

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• People have the right to say what they want to.

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

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• My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

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

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• In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don’t think we’re gonna try to do that.

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• 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’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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• I’m your average Joe guy. I don’t really care for politicians.

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John Mellencamp (33)

Birth:	7th October, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

John J Mellencamp, previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp was born in Seymour, Indiana, USA. He is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He studied at Vincennes University. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. His singles list shown below: "Hurts So Good", "Jack & Diane", "Crumblin' Down", "Pink Houses", "Lonely Ol' Night", "Small Town", "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.", "Paper in Fire", and "Cherry Bomb". He has won one Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Performer for "Hurts So Good" in 1983 and has been nominated for 12 others. His biggest musical influences are Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, James Brown and the Rolling Stones. His role in several films include: Falling from Grace (also director and musician), Madison (only voice), After Image, and Lone Star State of Mind.

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