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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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 don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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 mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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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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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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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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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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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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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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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