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John Mellencamp

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I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.


— John Mellencamp


#buy #i #i think #many #marketplace

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.


— John Mellencamp


#deeper #digging #go #i #knew

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.


— John Mellencamp


#because #i #i write #my own #own

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.


— John Mellencamp


#country #divided #filled #george #george bush

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?


— John Mellencamp


#did #entertain #guy #i #kidding

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.


— John Mellencamp


#anything #beatles #entertain #even #great

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.


— John Mellencamp


#best #ever #fortunate #had #hit

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.


— John Mellencamp


#art #comment #i #i see #see

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.


— John Mellencamp


#gonna #i #many #moved #musicals

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.


— John Mellencamp


#report #responsibility #singer-songwriter






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His songs document the joys and struggles of ordinary people seeking to make their way and he has consistently brought the fresh air of common experience to the typically glamour-addled world of popular music. ". Said longtime Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis: "Mellencamp has created an important body of work that has earned him both critical regard and an enormous audience.

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