John Prine Quotes

Four personalities are bound to clash.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

I don't like conflict.

Cher and I didn't get along that well.

If too much harmony dominates, then aggression can get lost.

Me and Roland used to fight a lot.

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

"You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just - clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich." "That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream?" "Of course I was the cream. Sha."

Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.

I am not anyone's enemy.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

I don't have beef with nobody.

Conflict happens. People aren't happy all of the time.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

I've just had this fight since I can't even remember.