Dwight Yoakam Quotes About Songs

• En los últimos tres o cuatro años he adquirido el hábito de llevar varias grabadoras de casete pequeñas en casa y en un bolso para poder grabar constantemente ideas de canciones.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Memories, Past

• To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Strong, Guitar

• I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Prayer, Couple

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Thinking, Hymns

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote things - like there's a song that Ralph Stanley later recorded with me that he had guested on my record what was called "Travelers Lantern" that I wrote as basically, you know, a hymn.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Years, Hymns

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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