Words matter. These are the best Sturgill Simpson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Part of me still feels like I’ve never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.
London’s been really good to me – England as a whole – but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that’s kind of where it all came from.
Kentucky isn’t particularly religious.
I’d love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.
Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it’s more DJs and dance parties.
I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016.
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.
Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they’re just trying to survive.
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.
I love tape. It’s another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.
I’m grateful to all the non-risk-takers.
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.
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I’d end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.
You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there.
It’s a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I’ll take it, though.
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.
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.
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.
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 pretty much just hang out with the kid. I want, like three more, because that’s all I ever want to do.
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.
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.
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.
Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley – guys like that were huge influences.
I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it.
I’m not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don’t want to ever make those records.
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three – so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music.
I tried to make a honky-tonk country record – rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog – like I wasn’t hearing anymore.
There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a ‘social consciousness’ concept album disguised as a country record.
I didn’t graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?