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• It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

  Lyle Lovett

  Writing, Want, Easier

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.

  Lyle Lovett

  Successful, Doing What You Love, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

  Lyle Lovett

  Jobs, Mind, Records

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.

  Lyle Lovett

  Water, Creative, Hot

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.

  Lyle Lovett

  Loss, Way, Eras

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• There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

  Lyle Lovett

  Luck, Bad Luck, Found

  "Song: 'You Were Always There'". 2003.

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• You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

  Lyle Lovett

  Guitar, Smashing, Get Away

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Fortunately, I've never had a job

  Lyle Lovett

  Jobs

  Interview with Jody Denberg, www.austinchronicle.com. September 11, 1998.

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• My music has always been sort of in-between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

  Lyle Lovett

  Country, Rocks, Long

  "Lyle Lovett's deep roots inform music, life" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2009.

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• I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, People, Singers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

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• I married her just because she looks like you.

  Lyle Lovett

  Quality, Looks, Married

  Song: I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You, Album: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, 1989

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• I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Writing, People

  "LONG Tall LYLE". Interview with Joyce Maynard, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 1999.

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• When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Play, Trying

  "Musician-actor Lyle Lovett". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 24, 2010.

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• Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

  Lyle Lovett

  Gun, Past, Fishing

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• Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

  Lyle Lovett

  Lying, Loving You, Infidelity

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• I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

  Lyle Lovett

  Actors, Danger, Movie Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Cutting, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.

  Lyle Lovett

  Thinking, Choices, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

  Lyle Lovett

  Home, House, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Jobs, Successful

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• I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Real, Writing

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• I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

  Lyle Lovett

  Guitar, Way, Young

  Interview with Jody Denberg, www.austinchronicle.com. September 11, 1998.

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• Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

  Lyle Lovett

  Singers, Sensitive, Compelling

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• Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.

  Lyle Lovett

  Kissing, Kiss My Ass, Ass

  Song: If I Had a Boat, Album: Pontiac

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