Justin Townes Earle
Justin Townes Earle
Justin Townes Earleis an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is a son of alternative country artist Steve Earle and is named after Townes Van Zandt...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth4 January 1982
CountryUnited States of America
song writing thinking
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.
jobs thinking artist
I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
thinking artist musician
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.
writing thinking bob
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting.
song thinking men
I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
song blessed writing
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.
play records certain
There’s a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play,
teacher writing school
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.
clothes impossible findings
Finding clothes in the South was impossible.
song writing together
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
nashville hometown stifling
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
song writing ploughing
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.
teenager father single-word
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
father rebel republican
I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.