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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "

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" Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it. "

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" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "

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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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" I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. "

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" 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. "

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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 walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her. "

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" 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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" 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 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 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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" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "

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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 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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" Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. "

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

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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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" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "

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

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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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