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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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Ideas
See
Country
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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 love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "
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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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" 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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" That might be completely self-indulgent, to write your first major-label debut as a dedication to your family. But, you know, that's where my heart was. "
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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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" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "
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" Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play 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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" 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
" 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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Know
Music
Rock
" I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore. "
Sturgill Simpson
Cut
Country
Tried
" 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
" Saviours get crucified. "
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Crucified
Get
" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "
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Music
Doing
Live
" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "
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How
See
Fail
" 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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London
Kind
Irish
" 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
" Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it. "
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Get
Curious
Anything
" Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. "
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Mother
Brother
Both
" 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
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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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Time
" Some people will say, and have said, that I'm trying to run from country, but I'm never going to make anything other than a country record. "
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" I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows. "
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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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Studying
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Day
" You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there. "
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You
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" I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope. "
Sturgill Simpson
Myself
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Guitar
" 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
" 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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Moving Forward
Long
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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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Broken