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The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

~Kris Kristofferson

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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

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When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

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I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.

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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

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The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music.

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I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.

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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.

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I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.

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I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: June 22nd, 1936

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