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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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Music
Never
Play
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" 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 never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know. "
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" I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her. "
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" 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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" 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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" Saviours get crucified. "
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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. "
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" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "
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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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" Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.' "
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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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Me
" 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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Write
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" All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts. "
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" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
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Music
Rock
" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "
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Love
Film
" 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 someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. "
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Creative
Time
Media
" Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there. "
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Love
Good
Life
" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "
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Religious
Particularly
Kentucky
" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "
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Doing
Live
" 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. "
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Media
Who
Music
" 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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" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
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" 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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Feel
God
" 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
" 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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Nobody
Studio
Me
" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "
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Trying
Dirt
Music
" 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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Heart
Family
Dedication
" 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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" 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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