Best quotes by Sturgill Simpson on Country

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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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• ‟ 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 tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

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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.

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• ‟ I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures.

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• ‟ I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music.

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• ‟ I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore.

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• ‟ I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

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• ‟ Some people will say, and have said, that I'm trying to run from country, but I'm never going to make anything other than a country record.

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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.

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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'm interested in exploring various forms of newer media that might allow those who otherwise don't listen to country to find and connect with my music.

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