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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
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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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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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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'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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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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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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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 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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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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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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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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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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