Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers,… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus,… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in exploring various forms of newer media that might allow those who otherwise don't listen to country to find and… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere.… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
