Sturgill Simpson

Everybody is on drugs . . . just give 'em what they want.

— Sturgill Simpson

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

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“Who the fuck is Sturgill Simpson?”

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Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

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I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

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I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of…

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You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

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I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.

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It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though.

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I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.

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Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

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Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

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I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her.

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Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I…

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I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers,…

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I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that…

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I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or…

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I lived in Japan for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and…

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There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.

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I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song…

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I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse.…

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Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't…

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I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really…

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I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too…

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Some people will say, and have said, that I'm trying to run from country, but I'm never going to make anything other…

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All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.

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I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.

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Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'

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You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

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I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.

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I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself.

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I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music.

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There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband.

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Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.

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I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

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I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't…

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I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I…

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London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative…

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I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I…

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I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something…

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