The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENWhat if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
More Bruce Springsteen Quotes
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Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that’s where the fun is.
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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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It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear.
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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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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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You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.
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The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
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I’m ready to grow young again.
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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.
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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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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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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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We’ve got no fairytale ending, in God’s hands our fate is complete. Your heaven’s here in my heart, our love’s this dust beneath my feet.
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Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night.
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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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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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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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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’s a town full of losers And I’m pulling out of here to win.
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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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At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.
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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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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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Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
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