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I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel. If anything, that tells me I'm making progress.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Hilarious
Abandoned
Dripping
Steel
Pedal
Released
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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.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Angry
Negativity
Nine
Life Love Good
Anytime
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Paramount
Window
Art Me May
Producer
Recording
Timeline
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It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Connecting
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Broken
Drinking
String Theory
Cyclical
Hearts
Matches
String
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There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Arguing
Bloggers
Country Music
Defending
Interpretations
Poked
Underground
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My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought he was gonna die. And he wrote a letter to my grandmother and their newborn son, thinking he wasn't gonna come home.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Grandfather
Newborn
Pacific
World War Ii
Letter
Paternal
World War
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I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Creative
Media
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I lived in Japan 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. On more than a few nights, those subways were my own personal stage coach to hell.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Japan
Night
Party
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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.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Metaphysics
Subjects
Certain Things
Pretend
Pontificate
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Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Alien
Independent Label
Label
Oh Yeah
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Destructive
Looking Back
Life Music My Life
Channel
Energies
Healthier
Identify
Outlet
Play Music
Points
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The only way I'm going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don't get me wrong. That 90 minutes every night, that's free. We get paid to travel. But every night, I have to get myself locked in. There are a thousand people that don't want to be disappointed, because they have a lot of expectations.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Travel
Disappointed
Every Night
Expectations
Locked
Minutes
Paid
Support
Thousand
Love Family Myself
Love Family Travel
Tour
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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.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Bluegrass
Country Singer
Nashville
Music Know Country
Country Music
Music Country Listening
Next Thing
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I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Bills
Carving
Clubs
Mainstream
Success Work Money
Aspirations
Enough Money
Entails
Grand
Happiest
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I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Building
Electric
Electric Guitar
Fascinated
Guitar
Guitar Player
Player
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Anymore
Became
Consider
Slope
Winding
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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.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Conductor
Facility
Management
Pacific
Salt
Salt Lake City
Switching
Consolidate
Freight
Lake
Trains
No Fun
Union
Pull
Screwed
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