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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "

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

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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 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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" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "

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" Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there. "

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" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "

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" Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. "

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" I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May because that's when the producer has a window.' So just recording and getting things out is paramount for me. "

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" I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures. "

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

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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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" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "

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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 fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "

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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 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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" 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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