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" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "

Sturgill Simpson

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" I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music. "

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" I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar. "

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" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore. "

Sturgill Simpson

" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "

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" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "

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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. "

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" 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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" 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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" I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

" Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "

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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead of 26 because I - I'm just such a homebody, and I just want to write songs and make the best record that I can. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music. "

Sturgill Simpson