My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
From John Mellencamp
Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.
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.
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.
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.
When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?
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