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" I've always worked with people who have been supporters of me creatively. "
Lyle Lovett
Me
Always
Been
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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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" Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer. "
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" 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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Own
Play
" Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. "
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You
" 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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Right
" 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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Communication
Respect
" 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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Lucky
Me
Company
" 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 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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Love
Myself
" 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
" Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music. "
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Music
Life
Radio
" 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
" 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. "
Lyle Lovett
Play
Feel
Like
" 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. "
Lyle Lovett
Great
Good
Better
" I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people. "
Lyle Lovett
Person
Competitive
Comfortable
" 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. "
Lyle Lovett
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
" 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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Tired
Go
Sleep
" 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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Think
Always
Performing
" 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
" 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
" 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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Trust
Opinion
Own
" Singing your own songs is all about individual expression. "
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Singing
Own
Individual
" 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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Own
Words
You
" It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love. "
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Doing
What You Love
" 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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Enjoy
You
Walk
" 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
" Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad. "
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Too Much
You
Think
" 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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Friend
" I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. "
Lyle Lovett
Always
Appeal
Just