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Steve Earle
Steve Earle
American Musician
Born: Jan 17, 1955
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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
Best World Coffee Say Boots Van Table Songwriter Cowboy Dylan Bob Stand Whole Coffee Table
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 Government Me Democracy Somebody Penalty Objection Idea Death Penalty Then Based
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. Steve Earle
Love Day Game Training Old Drive Year Spring Every Those All Day Spring Training Go End Up Who Baseball Florida
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect. Steve Earle
Respect Heart Criticism Think Other Take Writers
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. Steve Earle
Myself Think Obstacle Obstacles Terms Always Biggest Biggest Obstacle Really
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
God Me Water Fly About Spiritually Knee Retarded Rod Close Get Hands Deep Need
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 Singing Before Radical Kids Guthrie Knew Like Most Verses Up Grew Grammar Grammar School Woody Woody Guthrie Land Your Neatly
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes. Steve Earle
Art Best Sometimes Political Statement Environment Sort Making Itself America Political Statement
I still write more songs about girls than anything else. Steve Earle
Girl Else About More Write Songs Still Than Anything Anything Else
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat. Steve Earle
Cat Truman Truman Capote Interesting Really Capote
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
Music History First Down Live Recognize Guitars New First Place Around Cover Were Lot Matt Walking York Behind New York Dylan Place Bob Bob Dylan Reasons Street Right Started Album Album Cover Playing
You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world. Steve Earle
Relationship You People Words World Will Think Run Hours Talk Ireland Listen
New Orleans is a unique environment. Steve Earle
Environment New New Orleans Unique Orleans
Having a child at 55... that's optimism. Steve Earle
Having Optimism Child
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
Me You Fly Before Else Musical Poetry Supposed Know Becoming Got Just Anything Anything Else Theater Interested
My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that. Steve Earle
Spiritual Before Programs System Only Had Ever
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
Me World Christian Rites Most Passage Amazes Celebrated Anywhere Barbaric Funeral Funerals
I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me. Steve Earle
Love Me Woman Books Harry Harry Potter Those Kids Potter Had Like Because Were Moved Who Lived Started
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life. Steve Earle
Life Few His Years Wheelchair Oxygen Dad Last Last Few Years
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
Depression Music Great Remember Matter Dust Great Depression Fact Bowl Singer-Songwriter None Always Firsthand Stylistically Us Rooted Played
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
Tired Every Interstate States Never Highway Been Get Lower View Now
I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie. Steve Earle
Hippie Up Essentially Grew
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 You Lie Human Being Witness Consider Tell Something Only Idea Participate Execution Continuing Families Going Human Closure Being Process Victims Them Cycle Served Receive Violence
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. Steve Earle
Doubt About Rite Any Pagan Funerals
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did. Steve Earle
You Way See Got Than Did Differently Things
I don't usually read reviews. Steve Earle
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