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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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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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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'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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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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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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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.
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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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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 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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