Steve Earle Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Steve Earle quotes and sayings page 5 (69 year old musician). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 70 we have for him.
“I still write more songs about girls than anything else.”
“I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.”
“I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal.”
“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.”
“The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.”
“Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.”
“Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.”
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