Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
Dwight Yoakam
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the... →
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... →
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... →
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do... →
Dick York
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Thom Yorke
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead... →
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.