Dwight Yoakam Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.”
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“Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.”
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“I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.”
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“Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.”
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“I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.”
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“My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.”
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“It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.”
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“We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.”
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“In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.”
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“But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.”
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“I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.”
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“Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently”
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“In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.”
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“I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.”
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“I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.”
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“Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.”
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“Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.”
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“No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.”
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“The future has a lot to do with the past.”
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“To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.”
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“In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.”
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“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.”
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“We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.”
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“I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.”
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“I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.”
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“I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.”
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“I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.”
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“Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.”
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“I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.”
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