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John Mellencamp Quotes


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

People have the right to say what they want to.

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

This is about black people selling out other black people.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

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

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

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.