Steve Earle People Quotations

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.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

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.

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.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

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

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

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 than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

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 limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.