Justin Townes Earle Quotes

• You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don’t have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.

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• What I’m doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music’s always done. I’m not going to sing about ploughing, but I’ll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

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• There’s no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

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• There’s a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

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• On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.

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• New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There’s no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

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• Nashville’s like any other hometown – after a while, it’s stifling.

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• My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I’m like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

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• It’s nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking – but I’m down here eating pretty for two weeks and I’m ready to go back to New York City.

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• I’ve never been good at rock’n’roll songs, anyway; either I’m blessed or I’m cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

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• I’ve got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

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• I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

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• I try and eat good. On the road, that’s next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we’re in Texas – that’s what you do there.

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• I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don’t like to talk about music all the time.

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• I think that it’s the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

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• I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I’m not, I like pretty songs.

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• I love Motown, but I’ve obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it’s Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

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• I know I’m never going to be a big pop star, because I’m not willing to conform.

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• I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn’t have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

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• I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends’ houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

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Justin Townes Earle (26)

Birth:	4th January, 1982
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Singer

About

Justin Townes Earle is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Earle records with Bloodshot Records and has five released albums from since 2007. He is the son of alternative country artist Steve Earle. Earle grew up in South Nashville, Tennessee, with his mother, Carol Ann Hunter Earle. His father Steve Earle gave Justin his middle name in honor of his mentor Townes van Zandt. He left Justin's mother when Justin was 2.

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