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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.
Steve Earle
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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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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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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 mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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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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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'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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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I'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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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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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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