- Nov 07, 2020
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- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel basically good about my career because it's remained constant. What I do has never been especially in vogue or gotten high on the charts. At the same time, I haven't had to stop performing any of my music because it aged in style.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.
- Bob Dylan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I was a poor student.
- Futility
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take my own syrup, ketchup, and mustard, just in case of emergencies, in my suitcase. Whatever I can steal from the hotels. It's usually Heinz ketchup, and they give you a weird mustard. You don't get French's or anything; you get some sort of Dijon or some mustard. That's just for hot dogs. I don't use mustard for anything else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to be caught without a pick.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to admit it to my wife, but I only wear two outfits on the road, and then a third one during the day, but I carry about 20.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs. That was kind of my escape, you know, from the humdrum of the world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020