Author: Dwight Yoakam

Quotes

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

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

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

The future has a lot to do with the past.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

- 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

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

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

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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