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" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "
Sturgill Simpson
Band
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Love
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" The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May because that's when the producer has a window.' So just recording and getting things out is paramount for me. "
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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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" 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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" 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'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "
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" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "
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Railroad
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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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Play
" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "
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Influences
" 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'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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Hearts
Write
Broken
" 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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Where
Like
" It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though. "
Sturgill Simpson
Moving Forward
Long
Road
" I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "
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Grateful
" 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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Song
Thought
Progress
" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "
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Trying
Dirt
Music
" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "
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Sunday
Up
Playing
" 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
" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "
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Music
Doing
Live
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Salt
Great
Fun
" 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
" 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
Down
Hometown
" 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
" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "
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Had
Salary
Railroad
" 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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" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "
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Thinks
Crazy
Wife
" 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
" Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. "
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Music
Work
" 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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Honest
Will
Me
" 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
Bridge
" 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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Beautiful
Want
Pretty