Steve Earle Quotes
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My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.
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Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.
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Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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New Orleans is a unique environment.
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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.
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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.