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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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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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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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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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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 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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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 dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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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 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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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The revolution starts now.
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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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