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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.
Dwight Yoakam
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Dwight Yoakam
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 23
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Dwight David Yoakam
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
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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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Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
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I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.
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I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
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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.
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They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.
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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.
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Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.
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Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
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My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
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I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.
Dwight Yoakam
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.
Dwight Yoakam
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.
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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.
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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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