214 Quotes by John Mellencamp

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

People didn't listen to the song; they just heard the word Baghdad. They got angry. I was commenting on his economic position, not the war.

Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

I didn't know if I was ever gonna finish the record. We just kept working on it and working on it and it got to a point where we quit.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

The Legacy label is a Sony company that deals in their old catalogue. They put out the Robert Johnson collection and tons of reissued material.