Steve Earle Quotes

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• Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

  Steve Earle

  Motivation, Another Chance, Earth

  Song: God Is God, Album: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, 2011

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• I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

  Steve Earle

  Believe, Profound, Way

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• I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

  Steve Earle

  Pain, Joy, Tolerance

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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

  Coffee, Cowboy, Boots

  "Q&A: Earle takes songwriting break to honor Van Zandt". Interview with Robert Levine, www.reuters.com. April 24, 2009.

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Morning, Important, Wake Up

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

  Steve Earle

  Way, Can Do, Ifs

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• To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

  Steve Earle

  Agreement, People, Groups

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Racist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Song, Voice, Crafts

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• I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

  Steve Earle

  Fear, Thinking, Obstacles

  "Readers recommend: songs about obstacles" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2015.

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Way, Ifs

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Song, School, Kids

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• The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

  Steve Earle

  Art, Powerful, Our Generation

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

  Steve Earle

  Space, Doubt, Mind

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

  Steve Earle

  Jail, People, Chef

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• My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.

  Steve Earle

  Succeed, Complicated

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Lakes, Hands, Sea

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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.

  Steve Earle

  America, Justice, Criminals

  "Death in Texas" by Steve Earle, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

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• I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Long, Care

  "Steve Earle, Folk Hero" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

  Steve Earle

  Hate, Book, Writing

  "Musician Steve Earle". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2011.

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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.

  Steve Earle

  People, Bob, Genius

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

  Steve Earle

  Genius, Use, Term

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Years

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• You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

  Steve Earle

  Prayer, Charity, Causes

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