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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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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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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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 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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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
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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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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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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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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 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 don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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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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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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