Dwight Yoakam Quotes
-
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.
→ -
I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.
→ -
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
→ -
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.
→ -
I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
→ -
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.
→ -
I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.
→ -
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
→ -
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.
→ -
I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.
→ -
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.
→ -
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
→ -
We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.
→ -
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.
→ -
Control success before it controls you.
→ -
[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.
→ -
It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote things - like there's a song that Ralph Stanley later recorded with me that he had guested on my record what was called "Travelers Lantern" that I wrote as basically, you know, a hymn.
→ -
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
→ -
[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.
→ -
I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.
→ -
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.
→
Related Authors
-
Chris Stapleton Musician -
Clint Black Singer-songwriter -
Patty Loveless Singer -
Merle Haggard Singer -
Eric Church Singer-songwriter -
Dolly Parton Singer-songwriter -
Brad Paisley Singer-songwriter -
Buck Owens Musician -
Lucas Black Film actor -
Kenny Chesney Singer -
George Strait Singer -
Billy Bob Thornton Actor -
Charlie Daniels Musician -
Ricky Skaggs Singer -
Willie Nelson Singer-songwriter -
Garth Brooks Singer-songwriter -
Randy Travis Singer-songwriter -
Travis Tritt Singer -
Hank Williams, Jr. Singer-songwriter -
Alan Jackson Singer