Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
Dwight Yoakam
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dwight Yoakam
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 23
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Guitarist
Musician
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Pikeville
Kentucky
Dwight David Yoakam
Silence
Dead
Misogyny
Head
Wore
Morning
Placed
Dark
Lays
Evil
Red
Dresses
Gun
More quotes by Dwight Yoakam
It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote things - like there's a song that Ralph Stanley later recorded with me that he had guested on my record what was called Travelers Lantern that I wrote as basically, you know, a hymn.
Dwight Yoakam
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.
Dwight Yoakam
I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
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.
Dwight Yoakam
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
Dwight Yoakam
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.
Dwight Yoakam
I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.
Dwight Yoakam
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.
Dwight Yoakam
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
Dwight Yoakam
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.
Dwight Yoakam
I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
Dwight Yoakam
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.
Dwight Yoakam
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.
Dwight Yoakam
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.
Dwight Yoakam
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.
Dwight Yoakam
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.
Dwight Yoakam
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
Dwight Yoakam
No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.
Dwight Yoakam
My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
Dwight Yoakam
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
Dwight Yoakam
