John Mellencamp Quotes

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
John Mellencamp

Teacher, School, Fight

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
John Mellencamp

Age, Write, Songs

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.
John Mellencamp

Art, Using, Agree

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.
John Mellencamp

Care, Guy, Average

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.
John Mellencamp

Happen, Afraid, Fail

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
John Mellencamp

Age, Business, Young

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
John Mellencamp

Song, Taken, Songs

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
John Mellencamp

Two, Songs, Couple

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.
John Mellencamp

Off, Voice, Songs

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
John Mellencamp

Worry, Write, Songs

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
John Mellencamp

Politics, Dirty, Politician

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.
John Mellencamp

Try, Ridiculous, Sell

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
John Mellencamp

Music, Thought, Start

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
John Mellencamp

Great, Country, Hatred

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
John Mellencamp

Song, Guy, Authority

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
John Mellencamp

Work, Great, Anybody

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
John Mellencamp

Best, Human, Single

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.
John Mellencamp

Betray, Whole, Making

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
John Mellencamp

Today, Forward, Try

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
John Mellencamp

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
John Mellencamp

May, Thought, Find

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

Before, Said, She

People have the right to say what they want to.
John Mellencamp

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

Known, Four, Indiana

This is about black people selling out other black people.
John Mellencamp

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Nationality: American

Born: October 7, 1951

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