Steve Earle Quotes
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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
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Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.
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The revolution starts now.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
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Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
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I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.
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To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
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Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.