It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear.
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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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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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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Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain’t satisfied until he rules everything.
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It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.
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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
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What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
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Someday girl, I don’t know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we’ll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
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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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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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There’s an opera out on the turnpike, there’s a ballet being fought out in the alley.
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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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It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
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I’m ready to grow young again.
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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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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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It’s not the time in your life, it’s the life in your time.
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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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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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I’m ready to grow young again.
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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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When they built you brother they broke the mold.
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You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above.
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God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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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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The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
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