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01Undated

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

Kris Kristofferson / quote

02Undated

Her close friends have gathered.Lord, ain't it a shameGrieving togetherSharing the blame.But when she was dyingLord, we let her down.There's no use cryin'It can't help her now.The party's all overDrink up and go home.It's 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.

Kris Kristofferson / quote

03Undated

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

Kris Kristofferson / quote

04Undated

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

Kris Kristofferson / quote

05Undated

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

Kris Kristofferson / quote

06Undated

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.

Kris Kristofferson / quote

07Undated

'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd 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.

Kris Kristofferson / quote

08Undated

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

Kris Kristofferson / quote

09Undated

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 doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Kris Kristofferson / quote

10Undated

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 / quote

11Undated

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

Kris Kristofferson / quote