The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENElvis Presley is all there is. There just ain’t no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.
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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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Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.
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Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
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Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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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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There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
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Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.
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What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
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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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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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You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.
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Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
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The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
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It’s not the time in your life, it’s the life in your time.
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I’m ready to grow young again.
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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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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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We’re gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it’s gonna be alright.
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More than rich, more than famous, more than happy .I wanted to be great.
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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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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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The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
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