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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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 I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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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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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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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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 not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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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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