85 Quotes by 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.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

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

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

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

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.

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

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