[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
![“[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 horrific things.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/734/dwight-yoakam-9632_black_my-grandfather-a-miner-had-black-lung-an_874441.jpg)
![“Sadly, I wish I had been able to play ["Miner's Prayer"] for [grandfather]. Yeah, I'll never escape the influence of him in my life. And my - his wife, my grandmother, Earlene Tibbs - those experiences with them shaped me musically probably more profoundly than anything else in my life and shaped…” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a8/dwight-yoakam-9632_able_sadly-i-wish-i-had-been-able-to-play-min_1035823.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a0/dwight-yoakam-9632_brother_i-always-knew-about-as-a-kid-knew-that-t_1539468.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/7d3/dwight-yoakam-9632_california_i-wrote-miner-s-prayer-after-grandfather_2249586.jpg)
![“Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71f/dwight-yoakam-9632_christianity_those-songs-from-church-i-think-shaped-t_613462.jpg)
![“I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he didn't often talk about. I remember seeing [grandfather] as a child. He was working in a mine that was fairly close to their home there in Betsy Lane, Ky., and it was so close in…” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a57/dwight-yoakam-9632_aliens_i-heard-more-of-the-stories-from-my-moth_706440.jpg)
![“[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 on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/63c/dwight-yoakam-9632_brother_my-grandfather-was-very-very-fortunate-t_733159.jpg)