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• Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

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  Artist, Giving, Acting

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• They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.

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  Grandmother, Hymns, Voice

  "Dwight Yoakam Says New Album Was Inspired By Coal Mining And Mountain Music". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, ksjd.org. December 6, 2016.

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• The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

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  Fashion, Singing, Influence

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• I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.

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  Song, Prayer, Couple

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• I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

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  Men, Musical, Pay

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• As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

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  Artist, Focus, Guessing

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• I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

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  Regret, Decision, Musical

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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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  Music, Opportunity, Thinking

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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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  Magic, Trying, Want

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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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  Song, Strong, Guitar

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• When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.

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  Morning, Prayer, Sunshine

  "Dwight Yoakam Says New Album Was Inspired By Coal Mining And Mountain Music". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 6, 2016.

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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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  Country, Never Quit, Quitting

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• I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.

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  Mean, Impact, Connections

  "Dwight Yoakam Says New Album Was Inspired By Coal Mining And Mountain Music". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 6, 2016.

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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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  Country, Radio, Pops

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• I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

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  Kind, My Own, Consumed

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• [My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

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  Black, Grandfather, Veteran

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• Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

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  Independent, Marketing, Musician

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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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  Block, Records, Film

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

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• No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

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  Littles, Compression

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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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  Character, Order, Survival

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• [My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

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  Brother, Law, Grandfather

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• I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he didn't often talk about. I remember seeing [grandfather] as a child. He was working in a mine that was fairly close to their home there in Betsy Lane, Ky., and it was so close in proximity that he wouldn't clean up or shower there. He would just drive back home. And I remember one time seeing him come in and it was like seeing an alien person show up because he was still covered in coal dust and soot, and it had a profound impact on me.

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  Mother, Children, Home

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• Sadly, I wish I had been able to play ["Miner's Prayer"] for [grandfather]. Yeah, I'll never escape the influence of him in my life. And my - his wife, my grandmother, Earlene Tibbs - those experiences with them shaped me musically probably more profoundly than anything else in my life and shaped me as a writer.

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  Prayer, Grandmother, Play

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• I was raised in the Church of Christ, which was a very abstinent faith. And I just didn't [drink] - there was never anything that I found seductive enough, I guess, to have a romance with it.

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  Seductive, Romance, Church

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• I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

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  Directors, Nine, Months

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