Dwight Yoakam Quotes

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

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

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

The future has a lot to do with the past.

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

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

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

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.

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

Control success before it controls you.

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.

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.

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.

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

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

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

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

I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me, and he talks with me. And he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.

I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.

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.

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."

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

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

In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.