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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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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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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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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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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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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