123 Quotes by Lyle Lovett

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you

The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.

I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.