American - Musician | June 8, 1978 -
I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.
Sturgill Simpson
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I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.
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I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.
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I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.
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Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'
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I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.
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I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?
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I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.
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I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.
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Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'
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Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.
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It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.
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