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Dwight Yoakam

"I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that."

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"I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that."

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"In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis."

Ideas

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"In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future."

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"'m really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt."

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"I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme."

Man

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"It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music."

Music

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"It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century."

People

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"Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently."

Quality

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"Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show."

Circumstance

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"Only beginning to present itself over the horizon."

Beginning

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"I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it."

Film

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