Quotes by Dwight Yoakam

Dwight Yoakam

[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.

Black

Grandfather

Veteran

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don’t taste so sweet.

Lessons

Pie

Sweet

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

Liberty

Luxury

Writing

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

Insanity

Mind

Thinking

Control success before it controls you.

Success

I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather’s] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother’s brother. And he never talked about his own brother’s death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact on her family. And that’s part of what you hear in the first verse of “Miner’s Prayer.”

Brother

Mother

Prayer

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.

Buttons

Country

Osmosis

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

Decision

Musical

Regret

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

Country

Embrace

Music Is

I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I’ve maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.

Connections

Impact

Mean

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Block

Brother

Buttons

Character

Cleaning

Connections

Consumed

Country

Decision

Directors

Dying

Embrace

Etc

Expression

Film

Finishing

Grandfather

Guitar

Honest

Hymns

Impact

Independent

Insanity

Issues

Kind

Lessons

Liberty

Loneliness

Long

Looks

Luxury

Marketing

Mean

Memories

Men

Mind

Months

Mother

Music

Music Is

Musical

Musician

My Own

Nine

Order

Osmosis

Past

Pay

Pie

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Quotes by Dwight Yoakam

Dwight Yoakam

[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.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don’t taste so sweet.

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

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

Control success before it controls you.

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

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

I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I’ve maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.

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