85 Quotes by Dwight Yoakam

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

I’ll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

No compression or as little as possible – that’s how you get a good recording.

I don’t regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I’ve seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

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’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.

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.

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