A biography for Sturgill Simpsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.”
“Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.”
“I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.”
“It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.”
“Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.”
“I saw Dolly Parton play at the Glastonbury Festival to about 120,000 people. It was an ocean of human beings. I was a mile away from the stage, and I swear to God, I could feel her energy.”
“Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive.”
“I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016.”
“I'm interested in exploring various forms of newer media that might allow those who otherwise don't listen to country to find and connect with my music.”
“I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it.”
“I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.”
“I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.”
“Saviours get crucified.”
“Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.”
“I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.”
“I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music.”
“I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know.”
“There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.”
“I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records.”
“All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.”