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Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
— Lyle Lovett
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.
— Lyle Lovett
When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.
— Lyle Lovett
What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.
— Lyle Lovett
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
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
I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people.
— Lyle Lovett
Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
— Lyle Lovett
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
Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.
— Lyle Lovett
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
You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.
— Lyle Lovett
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
I married her just because she looks like you.
— Lyle Lovett
You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
— Lyle Lovett
Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
— Lyle Lovett
I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.
— Lyle Lovett
If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger
— Lyle Lovett
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
— Lyle Lovett
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.
— Lyle Lovett
She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.
— Lyle Lovett
Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.
— Lyle Lovett
Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
— Lyle Lovett
I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.
— Lyle Lovett
I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.
— Lyle Lovett
Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About You.'
— Lyle Lovett
There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.
— Lyle Lovett
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.
— Lyle Lovett
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
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
— Lyle Lovett
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
— Lyle Lovett
It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
— Lyle Lovett
Home is where my horse is.
— Lyle Lovett
Fortunately, I've never had a job.
— Lyle Lovett