Lyle Lovett Quotes
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.
You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.
It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.
I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.
I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.
Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living
Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.
Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!
I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.
Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.
When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.
I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.
The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.
It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.