Jason Isbell Quotes

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Jason Isbell

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 1, 1979

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

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I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.

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If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.

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For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

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I need enough room to eventually throw a baseball with a child; that's all the yard I need. That's all I want.

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I think Spotify is honestly just another one of Sean Parker's ways of ripping musicians off.

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I like to play pool. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win.

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As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

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Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um - terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth.

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When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

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It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn't an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn't be Indiana Jones.

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Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days.

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My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

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The Police could get away with doing an entire record with really no audible reverb, which I have always admired and thought would be a lot of fun to try to re-create.

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My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.

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I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

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I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

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My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

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The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

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There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.

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