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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Mandolinist
Peace Activist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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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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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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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 from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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 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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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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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 don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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 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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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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