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
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
The number one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule and you will be sorry.
I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.
I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.
I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.
The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.
Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.
Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.
If you can't get out of something, get into it.
Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.
You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.