Dwight Yoakam Quotes

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Dwight Yoakam

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 23, 1956

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

Dwight Yoakam

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

Dwight Yoakam

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

Dwight Yoakam

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

Dwight Yoakam

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

Dwight Yoakam

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

Dwight Yoakam

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

Dwight Yoakam

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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I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

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The future has a lot to do with the past.

Dwight Yoakam

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

Dwight Yoakam

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.

Dwight Yoakam

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

Dwight Yoakam

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.

Dwight Yoakam

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

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I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

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Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Dwight Yoakam

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.

Dwight Yoakam

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

Dwight Yoakam

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

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