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" If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed. "
Lyle Lovett
Own
Words
You
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" Singing your own songs is all about individual expression. "
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" In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew it, I might whisper it to my buddy and let him answer. I kept quiet. "
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" Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About You.' "
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" Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise. "
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" Fortunately, I've never had a job. "
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" I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! "
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" The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck. "
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Yourself
Be Yourself
" I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. "
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" I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work. "
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" Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point. "
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You
" I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. "
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Good
Always
" It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love. "
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Doing
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" Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records! "
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House
Home
Alone
" Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication. "
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Boss
Communication
Respect
" As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm. "
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Great
Good
Better
" I've always worked with people who have been supporters of me creatively. "
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Always
Been
" Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. "
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Patience
You
" I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows. "
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Sales
History
Happy
" My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school. "
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Me
Chance
School
" When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club. "
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Me
Own
Play
" Never guess a woman's age. Never guess a woman's weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she's due. "
Lyle Lovett
Woman
Talk
Age
" One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn. "
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Play
Remember
People
" It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are? "
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You
Things
Hear
" I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great. "
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Choices
Am
Think
" You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. "
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You
Friends
Life
" I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say. "
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Hearing
Say
People
" My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing. "
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Confidence
Friend
" I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. "
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Always
Appeal
Just
" My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it. "
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Sometimes
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