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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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Sturgill Simpson

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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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Sturgill Simpson

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

" 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. "

" All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Sturgill Simpson

Everything

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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

Nobody

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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