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" Saviours get crucified. "
Sturgill Simpson
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" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "
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" I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "
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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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" I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "
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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 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 want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore. "
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" I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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 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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" 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. "
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" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "
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" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "
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" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
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" I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. "
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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. "
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" 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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" London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's kind of where it all came from. "
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