The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENMusic was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
More Bruce Springsteen Quotes
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.
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Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain’t got the faith to stand its ground. Blow away the dreams that tear you apart. Blow away the dreams that break your heart. Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
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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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I’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.
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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 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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God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.
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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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I’m ready to grow young again.
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Elvis 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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So let’s take the good times as they go and I’ll meet you further on up the road.
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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
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Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.
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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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