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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Peace Activist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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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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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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'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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The revolution starts now.
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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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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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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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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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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