Kris Kristofferson Quotes

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Kris Kristofferson

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 22, 1936

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Kris Kristofferson

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Kris Kristofferson

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Kris Kristofferson

If you can't get out of something, get into it.

Kris Kristofferson

I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.

Kris Kristofferson

I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.

Kris Kristofferson

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

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

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.

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It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

Kris Kristofferson

I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Kris Kristofferson

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

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My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

Kris Kristofferson

The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.

Kris Kristofferson

I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.

Kris Kristofferson

Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Kris Kristofferson

Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.

Kris Kristofferson

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

To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself.

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