Dwight Yoakam Quotes

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• I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

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  Country, Embrace, Music Is

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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.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Thinking, Insanity, Mind

  Song: The Heartaches Are Free, Album: Tomorrow's Sounds Today, 2000

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• I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

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  Reading, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The future has a lot to do with the past.

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  Past

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• We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

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  Fabric, Common, Share

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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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  Musical, Trying, Quality

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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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  Philosophy, Want, Matter

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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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  Country, Osmosis, Buttons

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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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  Healthy, Trying, Canned Food

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• However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

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  Moving, Self, Doubt

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• Control success before it controls you.

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  Success

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• My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

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  Guitar, Cadillacs, Hanging On

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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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  Children, Kentucky, Ohio

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• My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

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  Wall, Loneliness, Expression

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• I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

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  Order, Chaos

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• Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

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  Quality, Timeless

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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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  Sweet, Pie, Lessons

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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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  Morning, Dark, Gun

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• I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me, and he talks with me. And he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.

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  Fall, Son, Garden

  "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 don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.

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  Hurt, Drinking, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

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  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 18, 2012.

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• Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

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  Country, White, America

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• I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact on her family. And that's part of what you hear in the first verse of "Miner's Prayer."

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  Mother, Brother, Prayer

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

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  Book, Cds, Albums

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.

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  Dying, Trying, Retrospect

  Source: www.npr.org

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