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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
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Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
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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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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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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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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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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'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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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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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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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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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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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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