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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Fort Monroe National Monument
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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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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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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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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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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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 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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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'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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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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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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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 don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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