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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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She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.

Lyle Lovett

Ugly, Said, Wells

Song: She's Hot to Go, Album: Pontiac

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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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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 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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Fortunately, I've never had a job

Lyle Lovett

Jobs

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

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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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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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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 don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

Lyle Lovett

Play, Trying, Missions

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

Lyle Lovett

Song, Expression, Singing

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

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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'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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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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Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.

Lyle Lovett

Kissing, Kiss My Ass, Ass

Song: If I Had a Boat, Album: Pontiac

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The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

Lyle Lovett

Being Yourself, Important, Likes

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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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Born: November 1, 1957
Occupation: Singer-songwriter
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