The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in. The beginning makes no sense whatsoever. It just, like, rhymes. And then all of a sudden I'll go into, I am an old woman named after my mother.
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
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
If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.
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
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.
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
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…
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. - John Prine
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won. - John Prine
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. - John Prine
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.
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
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.
Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't. - John Prine
Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.
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