It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENIf 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’.
More Bruce Springsteen Quotes
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Everybody’s got a hungry heart.
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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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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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It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
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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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The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
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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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Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
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You can’t shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.
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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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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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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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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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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
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Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
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