The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENIf they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
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Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright, and that’s alright with me.
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Somehow all you ever need’s never really quite enough.
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If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
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Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
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More than rich, more than famous, more than happy .I wanted to be great.
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You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that’s what the past is for. It’s to learn from. It’s not to limit you, you shouldn’t be limited by it.
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It’s a town full of losers And I’m pulling out of here to win.
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All people have is hope. That’s what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring. A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family.
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Everybody’s got a hungry heart.
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Outside the street’s on fire in a real death waltz between what’s flesh and what’s fantasy.
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The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind.
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The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.
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There’s an opera out on the turnpike, there’s a ballet being fought out in the alley.
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It’s time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.
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You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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You’re born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else’s past.
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A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
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You can’t be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you’re gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
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Together, we’ll live with the sadness. I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul.
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Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true? Or is it something worse?
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The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.
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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man, and i believe in a promised land.
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