Author: Dwight Yoakam

Quotes

Control success before it controls you.

Control success before it controls you.

- Dwight Yoakam

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

- 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

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

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

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

- Dwight Yoakam

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

- 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

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

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