Steve Earle Quotes

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Steve Earle

• Pain
• Joy
• Interest
• Tolerance
• Mediocrity

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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reflect

• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Time
  • Play
  • Excited

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• Our nation is today a powerful nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• I am not taking anything for granted.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Granted
  • Taking

• My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Love
  • Friend

• My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Sports

• This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good

• There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• 16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

  

  Alan Perlis

• I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.

  

  Bono U2
  • World
  • Different
  • Remember

• Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Dog
  • Lazy

• The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Up
  • Live
  • Hope

• I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • Couple

• When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts by 70 percent, you have a disaster.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Immigration

• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.

  

  Hal Borland
  • She
  • Nature
  • Pain

• A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.

  

  Aristotle
  • Anything
  • Gentleman
  • Disturbed

• What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Spirit
  • Pieties

• I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Interest