Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her. Lyle Lovett More Quotes by Lyle Lovett More Quotes From Lyle Lovett Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again. Lyle Lovett want song thinking There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found. Lyle Lovett bad-luck luck found The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck. Lyle Lovett being-yourself likes important I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it. Lyle Lovett records mind jobs Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company. Lyle Lovett careers different age I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs. Lyle Lovett cutting lucky song I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great. Lyle Lovett i-can choices thinking Fortunately, I've never had a job Lyle Lovett jobs Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records! Lyle Lovett parent house home Singing your own songs is all about individual expression Lyle Lovett singing expression song It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love. Lyle Lovett doing-what-you-love important successful When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful. Lyle Lovett successful song jobs The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed. Lyle Lovett eras loss way Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication. Lyle Lovett good me respect communication You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to. Lyle Lovett your saying you appearance The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental. Lyle Lovett correct judgmental pure fantasy My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing. Lyle Lovett me confidence music long Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad. Lyle Lovett me you man clothes Never guess a woman's age. Never guess a woman's weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she's due. Lyle Lovett woman talk never age If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever. Lyle Lovett someone you jewelry emotional
