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" As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm. "

Lyle Lovett

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Lyle Lovett

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Been

" You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you. "

" You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to. "

" Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records! "

" I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great. "

Lyle Lovett

Choices

Think

" My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school. "

Lyle Lovett

Chance

School

" If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed. "

" I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people. "

" It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love. "

" If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever. "

Lyle Lovett

You

Jewelry

" Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication. "

" Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point. "

" Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise. "

" I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! "

" When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club. "

Lyle Lovett

Own

Play

" Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music. "

" Fortunately, I've never had a job. "

" Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be. "

" The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage. "

Lyle Lovett

Tired

Sleep

" I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me. "

Lyle Lovett

Work

Teachers

" I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living. "

" I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. "

" I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say. "

" The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental. "

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