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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENThe 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.
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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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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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She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.
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Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers.
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When it comes to luck, you make your own.
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I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.
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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.
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The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
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Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don’t deny anything, I don’t advocate anything, I just live with it.
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So let’s take the good times as they go and I’ll meet you further on up the road.
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When it comes to luck, you make your own.
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Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night’s busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.
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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
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We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.
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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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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
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You can’t start a fire without a spark.
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It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
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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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Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night.
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The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
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It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
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