Sturgill Simpson Quotes

All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.
Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.
Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there.
Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio.
Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.
Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.
Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'
Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.
Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.
I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.
I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?
I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects.
I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016.
I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it.
I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer.
I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.
I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.
I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures.
I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.
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