Dwight Yoakam quotes

Dwight Yoakam is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actor, celebrated for his pioneering role in country music. His unique blend of honky-tonk, rock, and Bakersfield sound brought him critical and commercial success. He continues to influence new generations of artists in both music and film. Here are 34 of his quotes:

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food. (Dwight Yoakam)

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

Dwight Yoakam

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

Dwight Yoakam

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

Dwight Yoakam

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Dwight Yoakam

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

Dwight Yoakam

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Dwight Yoakam

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

Dwight Yoakam

Control success before it controls you.

Dwight Yoakam

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

Dwight Yoakam

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt. (Dwight Yoakam)

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

Dwight Yoakam

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

Dwight Yoakam

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

Dwight Yoakam

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

Dwight Yoakam

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Dwight Yoakam

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

Dwight Yoakam

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Dwight Yoakam

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

Dwight Yoakam

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

Dwight Yoakam

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it. (Dwight Yoakam)

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Dwight Yoakam

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

Dwight Yoakam

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

Dwight Yoakam

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

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Dwight Yoakam

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: October 23, 1956
Quotes count: 34

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