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If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

Lyle Lovett

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Lyle Lovett
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 1
Actor
Film Actor
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Houston
Texas
Lyle Pearce Lovett
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Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.
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Fortunately, I've never had a job
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I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.
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Home is where my horse is.
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I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
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You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.
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Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.
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I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.
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Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!
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It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.
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Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.
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I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life.
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Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
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My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question
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The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.
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You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
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Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.
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I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.
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If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger
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She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.
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