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I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
Dwight Yoakam
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Dwight Yoakam
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: October 23
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Pikeville
Kentucky
Dwight David Yoakam
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My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
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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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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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I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
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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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In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.
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[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.
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The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.
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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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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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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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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
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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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I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
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It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
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No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.
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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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Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
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