What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try. Lyle Lovett More Quotes by Lyle Lovett More Quotes From Lyle Lovett When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club. Lyle Lovett play song trying Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record. Lyle Lovett song ideas thinking I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life. Lyle Lovett good-life writing song I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. Lyle Lovett good-ideas writing ideas Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop. Lyle Lovett gun fishing past Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't. Lyle Lovett loving-you infidelity lying My music has always been sort of in-between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it. Lyle Lovett rocks long country I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life. Lyle Lovett real writing song I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing. Lyle Lovett creative hot water She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her. Lyle Lovett ugly wells said I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. Lyle Lovett missions play trying I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living Lyle Lovett guitar young way I married her just because she looks like you. Lyle Lovett married quality looks Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass. Lyle Lovett kiss-my-ass ass kissing I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! Lyle Lovett movie-actors actors danger It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are? Lyle Lovett easier want writing You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar. Lyle Lovett smashing get-away guitar Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. Lyle Lovett horse results way Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter. Lyle Lovett sensitive compelling singers I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em. Lyle Lovett writing song people
