Justin Townes Earle Quotes


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


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


There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says. - Justin Townes Earle


On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more. - Justin Townes Earle


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


Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling. - Justin Townes Earle


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


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


I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible. - Justin Townes Earle


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