"I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them."

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Source : "LONG Tall LYLE". Interview with Joyce Maynard, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 1999.

Lyle Lovett

#Coffee Quotes #Cups Quotes #Stage Quotes

“That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.”
“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.”

Source : Roger Deakin (2009). “Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.”
“I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.”
“Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.”
“I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.”
“There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.”

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