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" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "
Sturgill Simpson
Thinks
Crazy
Wife
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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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Serving
Interested
Musically
" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "
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Myself
Never
Sound
" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "
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Could
Railroad
Liked
" 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
Me
" There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record. "
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Consciousness
Country
Social
" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "
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Time
You
Tradition
" 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. "
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Family
Myself
" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "
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Religious
Particularly
Kentucky
" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "
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How
See
Fail
" I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it. "
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Find
Go
Internet
" 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. "
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Focus
People
Music
" 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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Me
Writing
Time
" Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence. "
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Isolation
Opportunity
Me
" 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
" 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 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Will
Career
End
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Song
Thought
Progress
" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "
Sturgill Simpson
Short
Love
Film
" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "
Sturgill Simpson
Band
Everything
Love
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Honest
Will
Me
" 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. "
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Myself
Building
Guitar
" 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. "
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Soul
Three
Good
" 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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Know
Music
Rock
" 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
" I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore. "
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Cut
Country
Tried
" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
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Might
Records
Right
" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "
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Trying
Dirt
Music
" Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. "
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Mother
Brother
Both
" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "
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Music
Doing
Live