Dwight Yoakam Quotes

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

Control success before it controls you. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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

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

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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

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

The future has a lot to do with the past. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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

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

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

'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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

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. ~ Dwight Yoakam

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion ~ Dwight Macdonald

You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history? ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was. ~ Dwight L. Moody

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you. ~ Dwight Gooden

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow ~ Dwight L. Moody

The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. ~ Dwight Schultz

A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator. ~ Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an achievement that much of the Republican Party has been trying to undo over the past several decades. Richard Nixon signed into law four landmark federal bills: the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Environmental Pesticide Control Act, and the Endangered Species Act. He established the Environmental Protection Agency, and made many strong environmental appointments in his administration. As we saw in Section 2.2, it was when the Reagan administration came to power in 1980 that environmental concern began to become a partisan issue. ~ Dale Jamieson

No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it. ~ Christopher Buckley

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the "verilys," the " I ams; "and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Always look at what your goal is. Understand that there are going to be days when you feel like crap. There are going to be days where you feel like "I don't want to do this" but you've got to understand what you're doing it for. ~ Dwight Howard

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition. ~ Dwight L. Moody

One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it. ~ Dwight Macdonald

You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won. ~ Dwight Howard

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog. ~ Dwight Longenecker

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Are you gonna be tough, or are you going to be tough? ~ Dwight Howard

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists ... ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God. ~ Dwight L. Moody

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well. ~ Dwight Howard

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Christ never preached any funeral sermons. ~ Dwight L. Moody

And eyes disclosed what eyes alone could tell. ~ Timothy Dwight V

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was. ~ Dan Jenkins

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower