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" I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Always
Know
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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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Interested
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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. "
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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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Work
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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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Up
Really
" 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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" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Love
Family
Myself
" 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
" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "
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Had
Salary
Railroad
" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "
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Road
You
Bridge
" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "
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Sunday
Up
Playing
" 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
" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "
Sturgill Simpson
Time
You
Tradition
" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "
Sturgill Simpson
Thinks
Crazy
Wife
" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "
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Band
Everything
Love
" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "
Sturgill Simpson
Myself
Never
Sound
" 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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Hearts
Write
Broken
" Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. "
Sturgill Simpson
Back
Music
Work
" 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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Talk
Song
People
" I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. "
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Sit
Three
Write
" 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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Will
Career
End
" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "
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Father
Expectations
Myself
" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "
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Short
Love
Film
" 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
" 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
" 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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You
Down
Hometown
" 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
" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "
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Huge
Guys
Influences
" I worked for Union Pacific. I started out as a conductor at an intermodal switching facility outside of Salt Lake City. We'd pull in trains from all over the country, break them apart, consolidate the freight, and build other trains. It was great until I screwed up and took a management position. Then it became no fun very quickly. "
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Salt
Great
Fun
" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "
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Doing
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