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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.

Dwight Yoakam

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Dwight Yoakam
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 23
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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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Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.
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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] 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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I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
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My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
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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 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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No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.
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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.
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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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[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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