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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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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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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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 see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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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 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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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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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
Steve Earle
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.
Steve Earle
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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