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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
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Singer-Songwriter
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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 don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
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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 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'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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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 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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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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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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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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