Steve Earle Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

  Steve Earle

  Stars, Thinking, Size

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

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Discipline, Drug, Persons

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

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• I had everything I need to get me killed.

  Steve Earle

  Needs

  Song: South Nashville Blues, Album: I Feel Alright, 1996

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Simple, Play, Band

  "Treme & Beyond: Conversations with Steve Earle, The Belle Brigade and Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

  Steve Earle

  Islam, World, Bizarre

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Powerful, World

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Jobs, Simple, Two

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

  Steve Earle

  Jobs, Kids, Feels

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and worry about it too much, for me. It gets me way too in myself to worry about what people are going to think about me when I'm not around anymore.

  Steve Earle

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Exercise

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

  Steve Earle

  Execution, Victim, Members

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Redneck, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

  Steve Earle

  Believe, Anomalies, Woody

  "Woody Guthrie". www.thenation.com. July 02, 2003.

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• Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

  Steve Earle

  Unions, Ends, Soviet Union

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

  Steve Earle

  Needs, Records, Selling

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• I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

  Steve Earle

  Wish, Bills

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• I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

  Steve Earle

  Hippie, Counter Culture, Grew Up

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• Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

  Steve Earle

  Past, Pushing Forward, Reaching

  "Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle". Interview with Michael Tedder, www.spin.com. May 17, 2011.

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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

  Towns, Neighbor, Moved

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2012

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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.

  Steve Earle

  Stories, Beginning Middle And End, Ends

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

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• If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

  Steve Earle

  Leisure, Workaholic, Ifs

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• I ain't ever satisfied.

  Steve Earle

  Satisfied

  Song: I Ain't Ever Satisfied, Album: Exit 0

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• My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

  Steve Earle

  Death Penalty, Penalties, Activism

  "The Revolution Starts Now". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2004.

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• People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

  Steve Earle

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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