[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Sadly, I wish I had been able to play ["Miner's Prayer"] for [grandfather]. Yeah, I'll never escape the influence of him in… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
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 Image
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — 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 of those… — 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 very, very… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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