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Dwight Yoakam Biography

Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, known for his pioneering-style of country music. His popularity starting in the mid-1980s, Yoakam has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has recorded five Billboard #1 albums, twelve gold albums, and nine platinum albums, including the triple-platinum This Time. In addition to his many achievements in the performing arts, he is also the most frequent musical guest in the history of The Tonight Show.

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I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

Country, Embrace, Love, Music, Music Is

In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.

Dying, Retrospect, Things, Trying, Used, Way

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.

Insular, Kind, Music, Opportunity, Thinking, Wait

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

Buddy, Insanity, Lost, Mind, Pay, Thinking

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

Artistic, Liberty, Luxury, Writer, Writing

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Ability, Acquire, Discover, Doubt, Moving, Self

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

Acknowledging, Country, Music, Never Quit, Quit, Quitting

Control success before it controls you.

Control, Controls, Success

I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me, and he talks with me. And he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.

Ear, Fall, Garden, Roses, Son, Tells

When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.

Dark, Die, Morning, Prayer, Time

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

Country, Formats, Left, Pops, Radio

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.

Come, Directors, Finished, Months, Nine, Seen

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Beller, Expression, Like, Loneliness, Sound, Wall

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.

Cases, Continuing, Music, Service, Valid, Years

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Consumed, Kind, My Own, Thoughts

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

Fashion, Singing, Influence, Raised, Cappella

I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

Decision, Decisions, Musical, Regret

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.

Cassette, Ideas, Memories, Past, Song, Years

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Matter, Miles, Philosophy, Place, Want

I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.

Drinking, Hurt, Mean, Medicate, People, Ugly

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