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Steve Earle Inspirational Quotes (64)

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The revolution starts now.
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Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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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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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.
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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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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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