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Jason Isbell Quotes
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Jason Isbell
American
Musician
Born:
Feb 1
,
1979
Good
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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I have my own definitions of success. And I have my own definitions of country music that, luckily, I share with more people than I realized before.
Jason Isbell
Success
Music
People
Country
Before
Own
Definitions
My Own
More
More People
Share
Country Music
Than
Realized
Luckily
If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I wouldn't be able to write these kinds of song. I'd be too busy doing other things.
Jason Isbell
Time
Song
Busy
Too
Other
Spent
Kinds
Able
About
My Time
Charts
Write
Genre
Doing
Wondering
Where
Wanted
Things
I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics... I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off of each other.
Jason Isbell
Community
Think
Other
Critics
Toughest
Songwriters
Feed
Sort
Off
Gonna
Each
When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that's touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.
Jason Isbell
Sad
Funny
Time
Me
Game
Song
Emotions
Try
Somebody
Way
One Line
Out
Touching
More
Poignant
Write
Step
Like
Motivates
Line
Hear
Up
Get
Same
Same Time
Different
Different Emotions
Figure
When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a long time. For that kind of a band, for the kind of music that I've always made, we had a lot of success, I think.
Jason Isbell
Success
Music
Time
Good
Good Things
Made
Long
Long Time
Band
Think
Kind
Had
Always
Lot
Trajectory
Happened
Really
Things
Playing
What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.
Jason Isbell
Me
Daughter
See
Having
More
Lifted
Allowed
Veil
Another
How
Child
Done
Them
Used
Compared
Level
Things
I have a lot of reactions to the outside world that I don't feel like would be appropriate for songs: things I'm not interested in writing about, things I don't want to think about any longer than 15 or 20 seconds.
Jason Isbell
Writing
World
Think
Seconds
Appropriate
Would
Would-Be
About
Outside
Outside World
Songs
Feel
Longer
Like
Reactions
Lot
Than
Any
Want
Not Interested
Interested
Things
For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.
Jason Isbell
Pen
Trigger
Writer
Red
Any
You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.
Jason Isbell
Time
You
Something
Road
Always
Lot
Up
Fill
Right when I started touring, there was this wariness I had of the world outside of my small town. But I'm not that person anymore, and I was never completely that person.
Jason Isbell
World
Small
Outside
Never
Had
Touring
Small Town
Town
Person
Anymore
Right
Started
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