133 Quotes by Jason Isbell

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    My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

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    An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

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    There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.

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    I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.

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    Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.

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    I spend a lot of time wondering how to best support the people that I love, because I think sometimes that means getting out of the way. When should I leave them alone to have their own life?

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    My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

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    I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

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    I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

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