Dwight Yoakam Quotes

I say love,
it knows no season.
It haunts the soul
eternally.

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

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

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.

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

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.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.

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

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

Control success before it controls you.

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

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

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

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

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.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

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

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.