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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
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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'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.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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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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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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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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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Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
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I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.
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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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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.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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