85 Quotes by Dwight Yoakam

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.

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

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

She truly is one of the legendary icons behind the scenes of country music. She didn't take the curtain calls, but a lot of us would never have heard Flatt & Scruggs if it hadn't been for Louise Scruggs.

Only beginning to present itself over the horizon.