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" You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to. "
Lyle Lovett
Appearance
May
Mean
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" I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. "
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Feel
Like
" Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music. "
Lyle Lovett
Music
Life
Radio
" Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About You.' "
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You
Guest
Terrific
" The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck. "
Lyle Lovett
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
" My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing. "
Lyle Lovett
Performance
Confidence
Friend
" I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great. "
Lyle Lovett
Choices
Am
Think
" When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club. "
Lyle Lovett
Me
Own
Play
" I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me. "
Lyle Lovett
Me
Work
Teachers
" It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love. "
Lyle Lovett
Enough
Doing
What You Love
" If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed. "
Lyle Lovett
Own
Words
You
" Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records! "
Lyle Lovett
House
Home
Alone
" Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer. "
Lyle Lovett
Growing Up
Up
Thought
" Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication. "
Lyle Lovett
Boss
Communication
Respect
" You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you. "
Lyle Lovett
Appreciate
Audience
Right
" Fortunately, I've never had a job. "
Lyle Lovett
Job
Had
Fortunately
" Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point. "
Lyle Lovett
Road
Play
You
" Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is. "
Lyle Lovett
Enjoy
You
Walk
" A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward. "
Lyle Lovett
Woman
Time
Always
" Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad. "
Lyle Lovett
Too Much
You
Think
" It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are? "
Lyle Lovett
You
Things
Hear
" Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex. "
Lyle Lovett
Sex
Admit
Door
" The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental. "
Lyle Lovett
Fantasy
Judgmental
Pure
" My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it. "
Lyle Lovett
Country
Sometimes
Rock
" I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. "
Lyle Lovett
Thought
Good
Always
" You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. "
Lyle Lovett
You
Friends
Life
" Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be. "
Lyle Lovett
Think
Always
Performing
" I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. "
Lyle Lovett
Always
Appeal
Just
" I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people. "
Lyle Lovett
Person
Competitive
Comfortable
" The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage. "
Lyle Lovett
Tired
Go
Sleep
" I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! "
Lyle Lovett
Danger
Being
Movie