Dwight Yoakam Quotes

I got a little bashed up, but thanks to David (Fincher) it was well worth it. I burst a bursa sac on my elbow and cracked ribs and (suffered) hyper-extended thumbs. (On his injuries while filming Panic Room)

I save a lot of things, but I weed through them from time to time. I like to think of myself as an orderly pack-rat.

I`ve been to Graceland twice - Priscilla & Sam Phillips gave me a personal tour.

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.

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.

It`s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

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.

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.

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.

`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.

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.

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.`

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.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

Only beginning to present itself over the horizon.

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.

Control success before it controls you.

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.

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.

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.