Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old -… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
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… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
[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… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share
![“I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d3/dwight-yoakam-9632_california_i-wrote-miner-s-prayer-after-grandfather_2249586.jpg)
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