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
My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme. — 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
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
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound -… — 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
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
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them… — 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
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
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization. — 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
![“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)