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Dwight Yoakam

I heard more of the stories f...

I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he didn't often talk about. I remember seeing [grandfather] as a child. He was working in a mine that was fairly close to their home there in Betsy Lane, Ky., and it was so close in proximity that he wouldn't clean up or shower there. He would just drive back home. And I remember one time seeing him come in and it was like seeing an alien person show up because he was still covered in coal dust and soot, and it had a profound impact on me.

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Dwight Yoakam

[My grandfather] was very, ve...

[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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Dwight Yoakam

Quality is timeless: It will ...

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently

Dwight Yoakam 59 quotes
Dwight Yoakam

I hope that books don't go th...

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

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Dwight Yoakam

The congregation that I was r...

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

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Dwight Yoakam

I listen to hundreds of those...

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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Dwight Yoakam

It's more in retrospect as I'...

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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Dwight Yoakam

I was raised in the Church of...

I was raised in the Church of Christ, which was a very abstinent faith. And I just didn't [drink] - there was never anything that I found seductive enough, I guess, to have a romance with it.

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Dwight Yoakam

[My grandfather -a miner] had...

[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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Dwight Yoakam

I needed to get into a nightc...

I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.

Dwight Yoakam 59 quotes
Dwight Yoakam

I'm a thousand miles from now...

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

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Dwight Yoakam

In the dark morning silence, ...

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

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Dwight Yoakam

I wrote "Miner's Prayer" afte...

I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.

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Dwight Yoakam

They both sang. My grandmothe...

They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.

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Dwight Yoakam

Buddy , you might think that I...

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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Dwight Yoakam

As a writer, I always tend to ...

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

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Dwight Yoakam

As an artist, you have to main...

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

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Dwight Yoakam

Country music originates with ...

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

Dwight Yoakam 59 quotes
Dwight Yoakam

Film acting has been a very pu...

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

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Dwight Yoakam

However you arrive at the abil...

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

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