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Writing Quotes by Steve Earle
- By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could…
- 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.…
- 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…
- The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
- 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…
- At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
- Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
- I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
- I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
- Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
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