I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
'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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
They're both very fragmented. You'll start out with a master take, the whole band plays it, and then we start doing coverage of each instrument, and it's very similar to filmmaking in terms of the process, time involved and the repetition of performance. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Control success before it controls you. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Only beginning to present itself over the horizon. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
She truly is one of the legendary icons behind the scenes of country music. She didn't take the curtain calls, but a lot of us would never have heard Flatt Scruggs if it hadn't been for Louise Scruggs. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I'd rather be in some dark holler where the sun don't ever shine, than to be alone just knowin' that you're gone as I slowly lose my mind. So blow your whistle freight train, take me far on down the track. I'm goin' away, I'm leavin' today. I'm goin' and I ain't comin back. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.' - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way. - Dwight Yoakam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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