In addition, I’m finishing a track for the movie ‘Waking Up In Reno’, but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future. – Dwight Yoakam
In the past 3-4 years I’ve developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I’m able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. – Dwight Yoakam
‘m really proud of it. To me, it’s a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character’s massive survival guilt. – 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
It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music – clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. – 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
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
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
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century. – Dwight Yoakam
Ironically, the success I’ve experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio. – 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
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
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others. – Dwight Yoakam
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It’s really, truly, rural white America’s blues. – Dwight Yoakam
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. – 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. – Dwight Yoakam
It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album. – 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
I’ll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am. – Dwight Yoakam
At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, ‘Let’s see if we’re able to live among the living, walk among the living.’ – Dwight Yoakam
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. – Dwight Yoakam