Dwight Yoakam Quotes

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• I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you.…
• I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of…
• In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so…
• Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to…
• I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still…
• But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And…
• In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with…
• We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on…
• It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
• My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
• I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central…
• Control success before it controls you.
• Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
• As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
• As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
• Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
• Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
• However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it -…
• I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
• I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

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