#m

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'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

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#because #betray #fans #going #had

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

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. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#find #house #i #johnson #like

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment. ↗

— Herman Melville

#cordially #hated #left-handed #only

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#i #i can #opera #rock #songs

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. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#deflation #depression #fault #first #first time