Steve Earle Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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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
“It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.”
-- Steve Earle

#Execution #Victim #Members
“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
“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
“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
“My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.”
-- Steve Earle

#Okay #Dialogue #Audience
“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
“I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.”
-- Steve Earle

#Home #Thinking #Artist
“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
“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
“I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.”
-- Steve Earle

#Fear #Thinking #Obstacles
“I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.”
-- Steve Earle

#Believe #Records #Able
“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
“Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.”
-- Steve Earle

#Political #Listening #Wells
“Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.”
-- Steve Earle

#Unions #Ends #Soviet Union
“I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.”
-- Steve Earle

#New York #Play #People
“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 #Views #Eight
“I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.”
-- Steve Earle

#Country #Nashville #Years
“I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.”
-- Steve Earle

#Writing #Stories #Four
“I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.”
-- Steve Earle

#Beautiful #Years #Texas
“I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.”
-- Steve Earle

#Thinking #Democracy #Obvious
“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
“You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.”
-- Steve Earle

#People #Democracy #Static
“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

#Teacher #Couple #Drama
“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

#Musical #Becoming #Theater
“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

#Hands #Sea #Fishing
“You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.”
-- Steve Earle

#Way
“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 #Causes #Charity
“He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.”
-- Steve Earle

#Teacher #Real #Hero
“I still write more songs about girls than anything else.”
-- Steve Earle

#Girl #Song #Writing

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