Top 43 Justin Townes Earle Quotes
#1. Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the silence is almost shockingly loud.
Francis Spufford
#2. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#3. All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
Justin Townes Earle
#4. I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.
Justin Townes Earle
#5. She left the house and climbed into her pickup,
telling herself she would handle whatever needed to be handled.
Nora Roberts
#6. I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
Justin Townes Earle
#7. Cut the 'I'm a bad-ass demon' crap. You have a soul. That's more than what they had.
Ashlyn Mathews
#8. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#9. I like music because it's the only invisible art form.
Sean Lennon
#10. I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.
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#11. As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.
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#12. I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
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#13. I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.
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#14. Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows - the total incarnation of sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.
John Bradshaw
#15. To Operate In Misery Is To Disregard The Original Intention Of God
Sunday Adelaja
#16. There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
Justin Townes Earle
#17. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
Justin Townes Earle
#23. Of course I am the only one with the answer. For every lock, there is a key. I created the lock, so I therefore know of the key. - Sobek
S.W. Lothian
#24. When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there?
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#25. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#26. I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.
Justin Townes Earle
#27. The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
H.L. Mencken
#28. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#29. Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.
Margaret Bourke-White
#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.
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#36. Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.
John Boyne
#37. I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in ... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride ... how the people I associated with worked together.
Diahann Carroll
#38. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#39. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#40. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#41. 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.
Justin Townes Earle
#42. I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.
Hutch Harris
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