Top 139 Quotes & Sayings by Kris Kristofferson - Page 3

When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert

Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.

I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it.

The heart is what matters most of all

Well I work up Sunday morning, With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt, And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, So I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes, And found my cleanest dirty shirt. An' I shaved my face and combed my hair, An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

I'll only live 'til I die