American - Musician | October 23, 1956 -
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
Dwight Yoakam
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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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I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
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The future has a lot to do with the past.
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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.
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When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.
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I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.
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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.
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Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.
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I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
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I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
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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.
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