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Lyle Lovett Quotes

American - Musician | November 1, 1956 -

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.

Life Old Friends People Friends You

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.

Good Baseball Hat Dinner You Table

You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.

Saying You Appearance Mean May Well

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.

Words Song You Forget Always Own

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

Fantasy Pure Judgmental Idea Least

One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.

Fun People Song Remember You Play

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

Good Great Best Song Better You

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.

Yourself Be Yourself You Kind True

It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.

Love Doing Enough What You Love You

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.

Good Communication Respect Job Boss

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.

Time Woman You Table Wall Sometimes

Never guess a woman's age. Never guess a woman's weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she's due.

Age Woman Talk Never She Ask

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