Steve Earle Quotes
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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 think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.
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I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.
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I ain't ever satisfied.
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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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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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From the moment Bob Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was so much better than everybody else around.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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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.