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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'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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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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My music has always been sort of in-between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.
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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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That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.
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My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question
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I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people was curious about what they wanted to say.
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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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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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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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