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Sturgill Simpson
American
June 8, 1978
Musician
Kentucky isn't particularly religious.
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I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.
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I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.
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You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.
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You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.
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I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.
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There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.
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I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.
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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.
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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.
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I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.
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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.
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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.
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I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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