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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.
Steve Earle
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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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 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 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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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The revolution starts now.
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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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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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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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 wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
Steve Earle
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
Steve Earle
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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