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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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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 make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
Steve Earle
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
Steve Earle
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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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
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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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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
Steve Earle
I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
Steve Earle
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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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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.
Steve Earle
I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
Steve Earle
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.
Steve Earle
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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