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On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Ten
Weigh
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Finding clothes in the South was impossible.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Clothes
Findings
Impossible
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Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Hometown
Nashville
Stifling
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I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Bigs
Conform
Pops
Stars
Pop Star
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I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Pretty Things
Song
Thinking
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There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Father
Single Word
Teenager
Listens
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I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Artist
Thinking
Job
Constantly
Learn
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As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Two
White
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I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Clothes
Impossible
Stupid
Finding
Smaller
Waist
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Fans
Memphis
Motown
Soul
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Sensible
Little Girl
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Together
Writing
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Certain
Play
Records
Urgency
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Father
Gentleness
Mother
Parent
Father Parents Mother
More And More
Split
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Blessed
Cursed
Song
Writing
Anyway
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Next
Texas
Trying
Unhealthy
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Musician
Music Country Blues
Blues
Singer Songwriter
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I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Book
Country
Mean
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Heard
Littles
Refined
Song
Verses
Nirvana
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Bad Guys
Criminals
Guy
Rooted
Watched
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Father
Rebel
Republican
Accountant
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Bob
Thinking
Writing
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Dinner
Feelings
Green
House
Luther
Neighborhood
Parent
Al
Houses
Listened
Mixed
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Dislike
Musician
Select
Thinking
Best Time Music
Hang
Musicians
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Hard Life
Song
Thinking
Writing
Life Good Your
Exceptions
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Heartache
Identical
Loss
Song
Chord
Connection
Music Soul Country
Country Music
Practically
Same Thing
Soul Music
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Bob
Dylan
Folk Songs
Song
Woody
Writing
Music Done Always
Bob Dylan
Music Always Done
Music Song Always
Folk
Guthrie
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Teacher
Creative Writing
School
Writing
Poetry Always Me
Competitions
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
New York
Artist
Cities
Southern
Artists
Immediate
Whenever
York
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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.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
New York
Cooking
Dog
Eating
Nashville
New York City
Spread
Sweet
Swimming
Two Weeks
Miss
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