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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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I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.
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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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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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That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.
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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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Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
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Home is where my horse is.
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The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.
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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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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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Fortunately, I've never had a job
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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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I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
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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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Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.
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I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
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Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.
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My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question
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Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.
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When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.
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