I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. — Sturgill Simpson Band Copy Share Image
“I don't have to do a Goddamn thing except sit around and wait to die.” — Sturgill Simpson Dying Copy Share Image
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. — Sturgill Simpson Both Copy Share Image
I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. — Sturgill Simpson Always Copy Share Image
I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. — Sturgill Simpson Gonna Copy Share Image
I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? — Sturgill Simpson Atlantic Copy Share Image
There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record. — Sturgill Simpson Concept Copy Share Image
Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. — Sturgill Simpson Home 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head… — Sturgill Simpson Atlantic Copy Share Image
I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. — Sturgill Simpson Anymore Copy Share Image
It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though. — Sturgill Simpson Focused 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 Creative energy Copy Share Image
You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love. — Sturgill Simpson Love Copy Share Image
I lived in Japan for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and… — Sturgill Simpson Aikido Copy Share Image
I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song… — Sturgill Simpson Country Copy Share Image
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse.… — Sturgill Simpson Broken Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that… — Sturgill Simpson Always Copy Share Image
Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken… — Sturgill Simpson Days 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 Country Copy Share Image
The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May… — Sturgill Simpson Art 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 Bridge Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. — Sturgill Simpson Dance Copy Share Image
Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. — Sturgill Simpson Dirt 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 Communication Copy Share Image
Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I… — Sturgill Simpson Feels Copy Share Image
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. — Sturgill Simpson Bluegrass Copy Share Image
Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.' — Sturgill Simpson Elvis Copy Share Image
Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at… — Sturgill Simpson Back Copy Share Image
You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. — Sturgill Simpson Culture Copy Share Image
I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to… — Sturgill Simpson Country Copy Share Image
