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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
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Peace Activist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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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'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've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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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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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 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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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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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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 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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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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