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 SPRINGSTEENI’ve had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn’t get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.
More Bruce Springsteen Quotes
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The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
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I’m ready to grow young again.
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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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Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
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Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
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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.
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You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
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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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For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you’re a walking, talking reason to live.
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Music doesn’t tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That’s what it told me.
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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 light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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It’s a fairytale so tragic there’s no prince to break the spell. I don’t believe in magic, but for you I will.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.
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