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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.

- Sturgill Simpson
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Sturgill Simpson
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I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.

Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.

I lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

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