Steve Earle

Musician

1955-01-17

Quotes by Steve Earle

• 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.

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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.

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• I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

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• You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

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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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• As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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• My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

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• I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that. Whether I'm on an airplane or wherever. Being able to have a library in your back pocket basically is something I support.

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

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