Quotes by John Prine

John Prine

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain’t what you ain’t.

Bewildered

Complaints

Philosophy

Blow up your TV…throw away your paper…move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden…eat a lot of peaches…try and find Jesus on your own.

Country

Jesus

Moving

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down… and won.

Down And

Oatmeal

Staring

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

Evening

Home

Morning

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It’s just so really good to me. It’s just like that’s what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.

Song

Sound

Stuff

I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don’t like it. There’s no noise on the computer. I like a typewriter because I am such a slow typist. I edit as I am committing it to paper. I like to see the words before me and I go, “Yeah, that’s it.” They appear before me and they fit. I don’t usually take large parts out. If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don’t know it. Sometimes,you gotta step back a little bit and take a look at what you’re doing.

Song

Typewriters

Writing

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

Long

Mistake

Style

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

Car

Country

Luck

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn’t sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was.

Real

Song

Writing

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn’t sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was…I’ve never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I’ll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I’ll have a decent song.

Morning

Real

Song

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America

Angel

Believe

Bewildered

Car

Color

Complaints

Country

Couple

Down And

Evening

Giving

Heartache

Heaven

Home

Ifs

Jesus

Leaving

Long

Luck

Matter

Men

Mistake

Morning

Mother

Moving

No Matter What

Oatmeal

Odd

Ordinary

Philosophy

Pieces

Real

Religious

Rock And Roll

Rocks

Sleep

Song

Songwriting

Sound

Staring

Stuff

Style

Thinking

Tvs

Typewriters

Writing

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Quotes by John Prine

John Prine

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain’t what you ain’t.

Blow up your TV…throw away your paper…move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden…eat a lot of peaches…try and find Jesus on your own.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down… and won.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It’s just so really good to me. It’s just like that’s what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn’t sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was.

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