In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.
Dwight YoakamI tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.
Dwight YoakamI can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
Dwight YoakamMusic's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
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