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What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. the reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
-Steve Earle
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What Songwriting Does Better Than Almost Anything

Steve Earle
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. the reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
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That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. you can do a very eclectic group of songs. you do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. you have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.
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When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. and it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. it works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. when you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. so you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.
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My musical influence is really from my father. he was a dj in college. my parents met at new york university. so he listened to, you know, motown, and he listened to bob dylan. he listened to grateful dead and rolling stones, but he also listened to reggae music. and he collected vinyl.
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His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. it seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. as he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. an image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.
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Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. they have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
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Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. if a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you could read them yourself. whereas if someone [you like] shambles out, and they tell you what a bad day they've had, they don't have to say anything. i love them. i want to hug them because they've been through something. and it comes back to empathy, always empathy.
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