Dwight Yoakam

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

— Dwight Yoakam

At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see…

— Dwight Yoakam

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

— Dwight Yoakam

In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to…

— Dwight Yoakam

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

— Dwight Yoakam

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

— Dwight Yoakam

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

— Dwight Yoakam

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies…

— Dwight Yoakam

They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a…

— Dwight Yoakam

The future has a lot to do with the past.

— Dwight Yoakam

I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known…

— Dwight Yoakam

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a…

— Dwight Yoakam

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them…

— Dwight Yoakam

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

— Dwight Yoakam

[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

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

— Dwight Yoakam

It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote…

— Dwight Yoakam

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward…

— Dwight Yoakam

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that…

— Dwight Yoakam

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

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do…

— Dwight Yoakam

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

— Dwight Yoakam

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

— Dwight Yoakam

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

— Dwight Yoakam

“I say love, it knows no season. It haunts the soul eternally.”

— Dwight Yoakam