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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.

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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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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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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I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
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Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.
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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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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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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.
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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'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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You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.
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Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.
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If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger
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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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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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