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" My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought he was gonna die. And he wrote a letter to my grandmother and their newborn son, thinking he wasn't gonna come home. "

Sturgill Simpson

War

Home

Son

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

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

" I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects. "

" 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. "

" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "

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

" 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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" I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that. "

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Will

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "

" 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. "

" 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 someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. "

" 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. "

" It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though. "

" There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at. "

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

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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. "

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

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Playing

" I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. "

" I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel. If anything, that tells me I'm making progress. "

" 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

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