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" 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
Say
Country
People
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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 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 lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night. "
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Day
" 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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Broken
" 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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" I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "
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" 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. "
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Want
" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "
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Wife
" 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. "
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" I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her. "
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Navy
Up
Really
" 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
" 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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Country
Social
" 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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Feel
God
" 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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Country
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" You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love. "
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You
Time
Thinking
" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "
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" Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.' "
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" 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. "
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Thought
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" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "
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Trying
Dirt
Music
" I pretty much just hang out with the kid. I want, like three more, because that's all I ever want to do. "
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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'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "
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" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "
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Guys
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" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
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Might
Records
Right
" 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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" 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. "
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" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "
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