Steve Earle Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Steve Earle quotes and sayings page 3 (69 year old musician). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 70 we have for him.
“The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.”
“I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.”
“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.”
“I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.”
“I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.”
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