Steve Earle Quotes (21 Quotes)


    I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

    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.

    At that point one of the nurses and I reached for the button at the same time and delivered one shock.

    Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

    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.


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

    Before, I recorded in specific blocks of time. That's changed. Now everything revolves around making music for me. And it feels good.

    Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

    If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

    You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

    That money was put in that fund for miners who are suffering and dying from black lung, and that's what the intent was and that's what it should be used for.

    I think we all care just as much about our coal miners as we do our deer and turkey.

    But it's the first time I've ever been married sober,


    pushing the edge of the envelope to attract attention, but it's the wrong subject at the wrong time. He's been going nowhere fast for a long time, and while this may draw fleeting attention, it won't save his faltering career.

    I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

    I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

    To me, this is about sticking to my guns and keeping my word to the artists involved.

    It was kind of crazy luck that it was me with the device and two nurses that were three of the first four on the scene.

    I think we have passed a meaningful piece of legislation here today that's certainly going to enhance mine safety. We think that the additional inspections will certainly improve mine safety.

    I've had more people come up and thank me and say they never thought they'd see these cars again,


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