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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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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.
Steve Earle
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I ain't ever satisfied.
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I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
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Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.
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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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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
Steve Earle
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He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
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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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I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
Steve Earle -
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
Steve Earle -
People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
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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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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
Steve Earle -
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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From the moment Bob Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was so much better than everybody else around.
Steve Earle