Steve Earle Quotes

69 quotes in 894 categories

• The revolution starts now.
• By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could…
• Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work…
• Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley.…
• Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me...
• I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
• I had everything I need to get me killed.
• 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…
• I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
• The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
• I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
• I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a…
• I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.
• 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.
• You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
• I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
• Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
• 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…
• I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
• To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Browse Steve Earle Quotes by Category