I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life. Dwight Yoakam More Quotes by Dwight Yoakam More Quotes From Dwight Yoakam Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time. Dwight Yoakam mind insanity thinking I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be. Dwight Yoakam matter want philosophy Control success before it controls you. Dwight Yoakam success My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher. Dwight Yoakam mother teacher school Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. Dwight Yoakam timeless quality I 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 Yoakam kentucky ohio children Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet. Dwight Yoakam pie lessons sweet I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt. Dwight Yoakam hurt drinking mean In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead. Dwight Yoakam gun dark morning I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me, and he talks with me. And he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known. Dwight Yoakam garden son fall When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground. Dwight Yoakam sunshine prayer morning My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about. Dwight Yoakam wall loneliness expression 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 Dwight Yoakam quality musical trying The future has a lot to do with the past. Dwight Yoakam past 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 Yoakam retrospect dying trying My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on. Dwight Yoakam cadillacs hanging-on guitar I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading. Dwight Yoakam understanding reading thinking I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product. Dwight Yoakam cds albums book I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food. Dwight Yoakam canned-food healthy trying I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact on her family. And that's part of what you hear in the first verse of "Miner's Prayer." Dwight Yoakam brother prayer mother
