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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Fort Monroe National Monument
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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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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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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