Steve Earle Quotes
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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I don't get enough sleep so I always have undereye bags.
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.
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I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents moved me up to Seattle. I lived there from ages eight to 16. When I was a California kid, I remember running around in my bathing suit and barefoot all the time and getting a suntan.
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I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.
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Each Disney princess is unique in their own way, but Moana is especially close to my heart because she's Polynesian.
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I'm trying this thing where I don't regret as much 'cause it doesn't really work that well to regret things.
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We all find time to do what we really want to do.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album.
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Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair
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What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
