Top 15 Sturgill Simpson Quotes

 Top 15 Sturgill Simpson Quotes

I lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night.

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I worked for Union Pacific. I started out as a conductor at an intermodal switching facility outside of Salt Lake City. We'd pull in trains from all over the country, break them apart, consolidate the freight, and build other trains. It was great until I screwed up and took a management position. Then it became no fun very quickly.

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Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'

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Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you. Sturgill Simpson

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. Sturgill Simpson

I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. Sturgill Simpson

 

You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there. Sturgill Simpson

Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music. Sturgill Simpson

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. Sturgill Simpson

Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. Sturgill Simpson

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music. Sturgill Simpson

I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking. Sturgill Simpson

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. Sturgill Simpson

I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records. Sturgill Simpson

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. Sturgill Simpson

I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar. Sturgill Simpson

I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar. Sturgill Simpson

The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May because that's when the producer has a window.' So just recording and getting things out is paramount for me. Sturgill Simpson

There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. Sturgill Simpson

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