Author: Dwight Yoakam

Quotes

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

Control success before it controls you.

Control success before it controls you.

- 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

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

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

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

The future has a lot to do with the past.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

- 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

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