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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.
- Steve Earle
#Great
#Matter
#Music
#Remember
#Us
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.
- Steve Earle
#Find
#Learning
#Own
#Us
#Voice
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
- Steve Earle
#I Can
#People
#Poet
#Poetry
#Understand
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
- Steve Earle
#Hardest
#Me
#More
#Poetry
#Want
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
- Steve Earle
#Did
#Differently
#See
#Things
#Way
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
- Steve Earle
#Best
#Human
#Lie
#Process
#Violence
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.
- Steve Earle
#Drama
#Home
#Me
#School
#Teacher
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.
- Steve Earle
#Genre
#Jazz
#Living
#Make
#Think
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.
- Steve Earle
#Anything
#Fly
#Know
#Me
#Poetry
In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.
- Steve Earle
#History
#Live
#Music
#Street
#Walking
I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal.
- Steve Earle
#Comfortable
#Country
#Radio
#Rock
#Why
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
- Steve Earle
#Leisure
#Passes
#Thing
#Workaholic
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.
- Steve Earle
#Comfortable
#Democracy
#People
#Politics
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.
- Steve Earle
#America
#Justice
#Society
#Sure
#System
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
- Steve Earle
#Everyone
#Like
#Politics
#Start
#Younger
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.
- Steve Earle
#Education
#Insecurity
#Know
#Things
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.
- Steve Earle
#Every
#Never
#Now
#Tired
#View
I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.
- Steve Earle
#City
#Life
#My Life
#New
#People
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
- Steve Earle
#Care
#Country
#Long
#Music
#Time
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.
- Steve Earle
#Culture
#Death
#Die
#Life
#Negative
#Yourself
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
- Steve Earle
#Always
#Myself
#Obstacles
#Really
#Think
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.
- Steve Earle
#Fly
#God
#Hands
#Me
#Water
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
- Steve Earle
#Any
#Being
#Heard
#Trouble
#Voice
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.
- Steve Earle
#Christian
#Funeral
#Me
#Passage
#World
You can't write if you don't read.
- Steve Earle
#Read
#Write
#You
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.
- Steve Earle
#Air
#Always
#Fort
#Growing Up
#Up
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
- Steve Earle
#Dad
#Last
#Life
#Oxygen
#Wheelchair
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.
- Steve Earle
#Death And Taxes
#Death
#They Say
#Truth
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.
- Steve Earle
#Death
#Democracy
#Government
#Me
#Then
To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
- Steve Earle
#God
#Me
#People
#Relationship
#Religion
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
#Best
#Boots
#Coffee
#Stand
#Table
#World
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