Steve Earle Quotes
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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
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New Orleans is a unique environment.
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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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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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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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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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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.
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My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.
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I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
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Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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 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'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.