Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

John Prine's Popular Quotes

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…

- John Prine

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

- John Prine

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

- John Prine

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…

- John Prine

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

- John Prine

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

- John Prine

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

- John Prine

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

- John Prine

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

- John Prine