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" All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts. "
Sturgill Simpson
Serving
Interested
Musically
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" The only way I'm going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don't get me wrong. That 90 minutes every night, that's free. We get paid to travel. But every night, I have to get myself locked in. There are a thousand people that don't want to be disappointed, because they have a lot of expectations. "
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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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" Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.' "
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" I worked for Union Pacific. I started out as a conductor at an intermodal switching facility outside of Salt Lake City. We'd pull in trains from all over the country, break them apart, consolidate the freight, and build other trains. It was great until I screwed up and took a management position. Then it became no fun very quickly. "
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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 someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. "
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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 that will most likely end my career. "
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" Saviours get crucified. "
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" I pretty much just hang out with the kid. I want, like three more, because that's all I ever want to do. "
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Three
Like
" I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "
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Just
Hate
People
" I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects. "
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Things
Always
" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "
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Liked
" I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know. "
Sturgill Simpson
Success
Work
People
" I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that. "
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Will
Me
" I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music. "
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Music
" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "
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Band
Everything
Love
" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "
Sturgill Simpson
Thinks
Crazy
Wife
" There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at. "
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Music
" I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking. "
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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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Consciousness
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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 not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records. "
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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 - I'm just such a homebody, and I just want to write songs and make the best record that I can. "
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" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "
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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 find isolation to be my biggest influence. "
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Isolation
Opportunity
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" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "
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Had
Salary
Railroad
" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "
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Road
You
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" My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought he was gonna die. And he wrote a letter to my grandmother and their newborn son, thinking he wasn't gonna come home. "
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War
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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 express ideas and emotional textures. "
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