"I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American."

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Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

John Fogerty

#Country Quotes #Song Quotes #Strong Quotes

“The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.”
“As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.”
“I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.”
“Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Stop looking in the mirror and start looking out the window.”
“How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.”
“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”
“After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing...The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.”

Source : The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

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