Sturgill Simpson

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

— Sturgill Simpson

“Who the fuck is Sturgill Simpson?”

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My wife thinks I'm crazy.

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I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.

— Sturgill Simpson

Saviours get crucified.

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“I don't have to do a Goddamn thing except sit around and wait to die.”

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Sturgill Simpson

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

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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 fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016.

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Sturgill Simpson

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

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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…

— Sturgill Simpson

I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what…

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

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I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to…

— Sturgill Simpson

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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Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at…

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The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May…

— Sturgill Simpson

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country…

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I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead of 26 because I -…

— Sturgill Simpson

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus,…

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Sturgill Simpson

Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive.

— Sturgill Simpson

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

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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 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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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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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 needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write…

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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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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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