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" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "
Sturgill Simpson
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" It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room. "
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" 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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" I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore. "
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Tried
" 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. "
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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 because that's kind of where it all came from. "
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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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Up
Really
" I lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night. "
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Studying
Time
Day
" I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel. If anything, that tells me I'm making progress. "
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Thought
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" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "
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Railroad
Liked
" Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music. "
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Soul
Three
Good
" Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there. "
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Love
Good
Life
" 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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Talk
Know
" Saviours get crucified. "
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Crucified
Get
" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "
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Huge
Guys
Influences
" 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 Can
Time
Want
" I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it. "
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Find
Go
Internet
" 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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Time
You
Tradition
" I saw Dolly Parton play at the Glastonbury Festival to about 120,000 people. It was an ocean of human beings. I was a mile away from the stage, and I swear to God, I could feel her energy. "
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Energy
Feel
God
" 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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Stars
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Music
" 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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Three
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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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Band
Everything
Love
" I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer. "
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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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Country
Social
" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "
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Father
Expectations
Myself
" Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you. "
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Result
Never
Know
" 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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Want
Three
Like
" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "
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Myself
Never
Sound
" 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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Ideas
See
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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
Me