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" It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love. "
Lyle Lovett
Enough
Doing
What You Love
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" 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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" 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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" The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage. "
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" Fortunately, I've never had a job. "
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" Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is. "
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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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" I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me. "
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" You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you. "
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" If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever. "
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Like
" 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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History
Happy
" 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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Friends
Life
" It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost. "
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Opinion
Own
" I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living. "
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Young
" 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
" Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be. "
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Always
Performing
" The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental. "
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Fantasy
Judgmental
Pure
" 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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Class
Quiet
Person
" 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
" I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people. "
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Person
Competitive
Comfortable
" I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! "
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Danger
Being
Movie
" I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. "
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Thought
Good
Always
" 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. "
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Woman
Talk
Age
" 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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Dinner
Lady
Hat
" 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
" 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. "
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Words
You
" I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs. "
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Me
Company
" I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great. "
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Choices
Am
Think
" 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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" 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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