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" 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
Soul
Three
Good
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" That might be completely self-indulgent, to write your first major-label debut as a dedication to your family. But, you know, that's where my heart was. "
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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've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "
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Particularly
Kentucky
" 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 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. "
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" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "
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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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" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "
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