I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that,… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me... — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
