Steve Earle Quotes

I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.

Steve Earle

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• My baby is the joy in my life.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Baby

• I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Long
  • Done

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Thesis

• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Right

• What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Father

• No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • True
  • Man

• There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • World
  • Me
  • Opportunities

• My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Father

• A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Skills

• My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Pretty

• At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.

  

  Olena Vitrychenko
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Judging

• Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

  

  Petrarch
  • Together
  • Beauty
  • Virtue

• I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Think
  • Girl
  • Model

• Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Writing
  • Fighting
  • Confidence

• I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Girl