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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.
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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I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.
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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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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 hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.
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Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.
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Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
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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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No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.
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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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Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
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I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
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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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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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My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
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 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
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
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
Dwight Yoakam
In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.
Dwight Yoakam
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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