Quotes by Kris Kristofferson

“Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.”

“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. Cause thats all that matters in the end.”

“You dont paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.”

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

“Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.”

“How can you tell?”

“The world situation being what it is, I have a lot to say, ... And I figure as long as Ive got something to talk about, Ill probably keep talking.”

“Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story”

“Its only going to get worse,”

“I dont write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day, ... But when current events and world situations get in your brain, thats the way I sort it out.”

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

Her close friends have gathered.Lord, aint it a shameGrieving togetherSharing the blame.But when she was dyingLord, we let her down.Theres no use cryinIt cant help her now.The partys all overDrink up and go home.Its too late to love herAnd leave her alone.Just say she was someoneLord, so far from homeWhose life was so lonesomeShe died all aloneWho dreamed pretty dreamsThat never came trueLord, why was she bornSo black and blue?Oh, why was she bornSo black and blue?Epitaph (Black And Blue) Written by: Kris KristoffersonNote: Epitaph is about Janis Joplin.

Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.

Id trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

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

I am grateful every morning I wake up. Ive a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

Sunday Morning Coming Down is probably the most directly autobiographical thing Id written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and Sunday Morning Coming Down was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesnt cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

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.