Quotes
Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again).
After retiring from music in 2021, Kristofferson made occasional guest appearances, including a memorable performance with Rosanne Cash at Nelson’s 90th birthday celebration in 2023, where they sang I think I was different from the other guys in that I came in it as a fan of all of them,
Kristofferson told the AP in 2005. It just happened that my first professional gig was at the Troubadour in L.A. opening for Linda Rondstadt,
When I look back now—I know I hear Willie say it was the best time of his life,
Kristofferson said in 2005. Robert Hilburn (Los Angeles Times music critic) wrote a fantastic review and the concert was held over for a week,
I was in ROTC in college, and it was just taken for granted in my family that I’d do my service,
he said in a 2006 AP interview It is with a heavy heart that we share the news our husband/father/grandfather, Kris Kristofferson, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Sept. 28 at home. We’re all so blessed for our time with him. Thank you for loving him all these many years, and when you see a rainbow, know he’s smiling down at us all,
It was fun, ... It was the way that I thought an artist was supposed to live. I always agreed with Blake when he said that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ... I think God protects fools and songwriters."
Kristofferson told "60 Minutes." Kris brought (country music) kind of from the dark ages up to the present-day time, made it acceptable and brought great lyrics - I mean, the best possible lyrics,
Willie Nelson, an early role model for Kristofferson, told CBS's 60 Minutes in a 1999 interview Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
The broken-hearted narrator of Bobby McGee, Shaking his hand when I was still in the Army backstage at the Grand Ole Opry was the moment I’d decided I’d come back,
There's no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,
Nelson said during a November 2009 award ceremony for Kristofferson held by BMI