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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. "
Sturgill Simpson
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" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "
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" Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio. "
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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 wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career. "
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End
" 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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Song
People
" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "
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How
See
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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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Pretty
" 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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Work
" My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought he was gonna die. And he wrote a letter to my grandmother and their newborn son, thinking he wasn't gonna come home. "
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War
Home
Son
" 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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Music
Never
Play
" I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects. "
Sturgill Simpson
Sit
Things
Always
" 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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Everything
Where
Like
" 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 someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. "
Sturgill Simpson
Creative
Time
Media
" 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
Country
" 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
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Down
Hometown
" I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her. "
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Navy
Up
Really
" 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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Music
Life
My Life
" 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 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
" You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love. "
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You
Time
Thinking
" 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
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Rock
" The only way I'm going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don't get me wrong. That 90 minutes every night, that's free. We get paid to travel. But every night, I have to get myself locked in. There are a thousand people that don't want to be disappointed, because they have a lot of expectations. "
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Love
Family
Myself
" 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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Consciousness
Country
Social
" 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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Cut
Country
Tried
" 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
" 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
" 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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Dirt
Country
You