85 Quotes by Dwight Yoakam

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.