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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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 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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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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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'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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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'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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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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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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 think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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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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