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I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

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Chris Isaak
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: June 26
Actor
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Chinatown
Stockton
Christopher Joseph Isaak
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I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.
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I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.
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I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.
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I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.
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I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
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I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.
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If Frank Sinatra is singing, maybe everything will go good.
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My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
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I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.
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I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.
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I've been gone on the road for the past three years maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.
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I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.
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I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
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I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.
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If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is.
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I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.
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When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
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Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't overdo it.
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I keep things pretty simple.
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