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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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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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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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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 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'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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 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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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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