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Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently
Dwight Yoakam
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Dwight Yoakam
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 23
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Pikeville
Kentucky
Dwight David Yoakam
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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
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I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
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I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.
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But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
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No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.
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In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
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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.
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I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
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I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
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