Kris Kristofferson Quotes

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

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

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

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

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.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

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

The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.

I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.

The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

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.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.

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

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.

Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.

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

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

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

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

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

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

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.

The heart is what matters most of all

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

I'll only live 'til I die

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

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

Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.

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.

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

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

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