Author: Dwight Yoakam

Quotes

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.

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

Control success before it controls you.

Control success before it controls you.

- Dwight Yoakam

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.

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

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

- Dwight Yoakam

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

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.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

- Dwight Yoakam

The future has a lot to do with the past.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

- Dwight Yoakam

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

- 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.

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

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