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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
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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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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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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'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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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'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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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 don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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