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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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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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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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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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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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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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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
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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.
Steve Earle
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.
Steve Earle
