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Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Bruce Springsteen

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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Children Emotion Family Influence Life Live Love Music Wife
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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Adult Life Live Music Myself Mystery
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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Distance Dream Judgement Life Myself Patriot Reality
A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.
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Book Dangerous Man Perspective
You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.
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Deep Life Reality Wisdom Yourself
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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Breathe Carry Expression Fly Light Lying Train Truth World
It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
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Company Friendship Live Man Sad Skin
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain’t satisfied until he rules everything.
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Deep Fulfill Himself King Man Poor Rich Rule Satisfaction Wisdom
You can’t be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you’re gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
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Afraid Equation Goodness Life Old Understand
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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Hard Listening Myself People Stop Voice Wasted
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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Learning Limitation Music Past Yourself
I’m the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin’ I can do about it. It’s like, I’m a thinkin’ fool. That’s a big part of me.
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Fools Kind Myself Person Thinking
Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.
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Artist Care Kind Obsession People
Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.
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Deep Difference Life Live Success
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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King Man Oneself Tough
You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above.
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Learning Live Rise Yourself
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
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Best Face Music World
You’re born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else’s past.
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Born Life Past Play
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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Music Myself People Position Presence Worth
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
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Luck Power Yourself
What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
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Kill Love Survive Yourself
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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Acceptance Beautiful Faith Love Magic Myself Night Relationship
Outside the street’s on fire in a real death waltz between what’s flesh and what’s fantasy.
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Death Fantasy Fire Reality
If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.
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Fake People Poet Writing Yourself
There’s an opera out on the turnpike, there’s a ballet being fought out in the alley.
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Fight Music Place Valley
The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
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Different Education Intelligence Kind System
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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Audience Life Music See Yourself

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