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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.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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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 revolution starts now.
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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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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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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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