Steve Earle quotes - page 2

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. (Steve Earle)
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. View quote
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Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. View quote
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I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time. View quote
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. View quote
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I don't usually read reviews. View quote
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Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. (Steve Earle)
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft. View quote
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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. View quote
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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. View quote
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America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. View quote
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Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point. View quote
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I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie. View quote
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes. View quote
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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. View quote
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Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. View quote
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into. (Steve Earle)
My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs. View quote
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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. View quote
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The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard. View quote
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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. View quote
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