Dwight Yoakam famous quotes

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

#Block #Records #Film

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

#Thinking #Insanity #Mind

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

#Philosophy #Want #Matter

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

#Sweet #Pie #Lessons

Control success before it controls you.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Success

I'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

#Character #Order #Survival

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Guitar #Cadillacs #Hanging On

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

#Cleaning #Honest #Classic

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

#Pregnancy #Character #Gone

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Track #Finishing #Looks

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

#Years #Cases #Rendering

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

#Issues #Long #Meat

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

#Musical #Trying #Quality

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Song #Memories #Past

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Country #Never Quit #Quitting

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Kind

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

#Magic #Trying #Want

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Independent #Marketing #Musician

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Littles #Compression

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

#Past

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

#Song #Strong #Guitar

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

#Morning #Dark #Gun

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

#Country #Osmosis #Buttons

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Fabric #Common #Share

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

#Healthy #Trying #Canned Food

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Order #Chaos

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

#Country #Embrace #Music Is

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Children #Kentucky #Ohio

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Country #Radio #Pops

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

#Opportunity #Thinking #Waiting

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

#Directors #Nine #Months

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

#Writing #Luxury #Liberty

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

#Artist #Focus #Guessing

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

#Country #White #America

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

#Artist #Giving #Acting

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

#Moving #Self #Doubt

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

#Regret #Decision #Musical

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

#Men #Musical #Pay