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

Sturgill Simpson

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

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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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" Saviours get crucified. "

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" 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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" I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to. "

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

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

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" 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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" 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 just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music. "

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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. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking. "

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" 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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" 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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" I'm interested in exploring various forms of newer media that might allow those who otherwise don't listen to country to find and connect with my music. "

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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 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 want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore. "

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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 or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar. "

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" 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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" 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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