Latest Steve Young Quotes from Interviews

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• Everything you do in life is up to you. Part of life is realizing you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know, but it's up to you to face the fears and unleash that which really drives you.

  Steve Young

  Up To You, Faces, Life Is

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• I'd rather work with guys that have time to live with you, and let it gel.

  Steve Young

  Guy

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.

  Steve Young

  Opportunity, Jumping, Missing

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• I always had a hard time with Nashville. I reluctantly live there. I've mellowed, and it's improved some, in the fact it has more immigrants. There's some real Mexicans there, some folks from India, some of this and that. I'm not satisfied at all with living there. It's a dilemma for me.

  Steve Young

  Real, Hard Times, Nashville

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

  Steve Young

  Moving, Home, Texas

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

• I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

  Steve Young

  People, Drug, Age

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.

  Steve Young

  Country, Song, Cousin

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

• Josh Graves laid down the dobro on that song [The White Trash Song] and he was hot. We went on the road together and we'd get drunker'n hell every night! I haven't had a drink since November, 1979. And I like it.

  Steve Young

  Song, Night, White

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

• I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

  Steve Young

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

• All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's all that mattered. In spite of me a couple of things happened, mainly the Eagles and Seven Bridges Road. That certainly helped me survive. Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, and Ian Matthews did it.

  Steve Young

  Song, Couple, Eagles

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

• I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville years later, one night I went to a Harlan Howard Guitar Pull thing, and there was Waylon. He started talking about how much he loved my work and how great I was, and I couldn't even get a word in.

  Steve Young

  Night, Nashville, Talking

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

• I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

  Steve Young

  Attitude, Self, Care

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.

  Steve Young

  Rocks, Done, Records

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• James Burton was playing some pure roots stuff. Gram Parsons took an interest in that record [in '68-'69] and he admired it. I never had the concept that I'm going to go somewhere and I'm going to have this career. I just really never thought about all that.

  Steve Young

  Careers, Roots, Stuff

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

  Steve Young

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

  Steve Young

  Orchestra, Technique, Instruments

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.

  Steve Young

  Nashville, Roots, Rocks

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day sitting in class and it just came to me how the neck worked. I was enlightened to the scales, and the runs. I just saw it and thought; now I understand it!

  Steve Young

  Running, Texas, Guitar

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

• When was about 16 or 17, I was living in Beaumont, Texas and Carlos Montoya came to Lamar College. I went to see him and I didn't know what flamenco was. But when I saw him play, I was blown away that one man on one instrument could make all that sound. I'd learned a lot, but that made a big impact. I had intuition for it. In about three years I learned most of what I know now.

  Steve Young

  College, Men, Years

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

  Steve Young

  Piano, Piano Playing, Guitar

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

  Steve Young

  Mother, Guitar, Body

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

  Steve Young

  Real, Vision, Sound

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

• I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

  Steve Young

  Song, Boys, Guitar

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

  Steve Young

  Song, Guitar, Church

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

• I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

  Steve Young

  Real, Kids, People

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.