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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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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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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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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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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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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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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