American - Musician | February 1, 1979 -
Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.
Jason Isbell
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I spend a lot of time wondering how to best support the people that I love, because I think sometimes that means getting out of the way. When should I leave them alone to have their own life?
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My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.
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I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.
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As you get up in your thirties, the van touring is not a possibility anymore. We can't all be Mike Watt.
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When I joined the Truckers, I was 21 and riding in the van with guys who were a generation older than me.
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I go to the movies a lot on off days. I exercise. I have routines that I go by.
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When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.
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The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.
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Good sounds, they just make you feel good.
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Every time I'd get a job, they'd say: 'You'll be good at loading trucks.' I couldn't explain that there was more to me than carrying things.
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I think Spotify is honestly just another one of Sean Parker's ways of ripping musicians off.
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