Quotes by Dwight Yoakam

About Dwight Yoakam:

Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than 21 albums and compilations, charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has recorded 5 Billboard #1 Albums, 12 Gold Albums, and 9 Platinum Albums, including the Triple Platinum This Time. In addition to his many achievements in the performing arts, he is also the most frequent musical guest in the history of The Tonight Show.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

Dwight Yoakam

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

Dwight Yoakam

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she wo...

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.

Dwight Yoakam

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

Dwight Yoakam

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

Dwight Yoakam

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

Dwight Yoakam

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

Dwight Yoakam

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

Dwight Yoakam

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Dwight Yoakam

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class p...

Dwight Yoakam

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

Dwight Yoakam

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

Dwight Yoakam

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

Dwight Yoakam

'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.

Dwight Yoakam

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.

Dwight Yoakam

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

Dwight Yoakam

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

Dwight Yoakam

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Dwight Yoakam

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

Dwight Yoakam

Author Bio

  • NameDwight Yoakam
  • DescriptionAmerican singer
  • BornOctober 23, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer-songwriter; Musician; Singer