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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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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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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'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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
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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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