Quotes by Justin Townes Earle

Justin Townes Earle

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

Song

Together

Writing

As a southern man, there’s two things I’m definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

Men

Two

White

Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

Clothes

Findings

Impossible

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.

Criminals

Guy

Jobs

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.

Father

Rebel

Republican

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.

Book

Country

Mean

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.

Country

Loss

Song

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.

Bob

Thinking

Writing

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.

Feelings

House

Parent

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.

Heard

Littles

Song

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Artist

Bigs

Blessed

Bob

Book

Certain

Cities

Clothes

Country

Criminals

Dog

Fans

Father

Feelings

Findings

Guy

Heard

Home

Hometown

House

Impossible

Jobs

Littles

Loss

Mean

Memphis

Men

Mother

Musician

Nashville

New York

Parent

Play

Pops

Rebel

Records

Republican

School

Single Word

Song

Soul

Stars

Stifling

Stupid

Sweet

Teacher

Teenager

Ten

Texas

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Quotes by Justin Townes Earle

Justin Townes Earle

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

As a southern man, there’s two things I’m definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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