Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer Kristoffersonis an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He wrote and recorded the hit songs "Me and Bobby McGee," "For the Good Times," "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night." Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup The Highwaymen. In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth22 June 1936
CityBrownsville, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.
I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.
I'll only live 'til I die
There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.
If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.
The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.
Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.
When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.