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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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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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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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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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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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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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