Steve Earle Quotes
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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 singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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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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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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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
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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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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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 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 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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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 think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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 it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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 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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New Orleans is a unique environment.