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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

Bruce Springsteen

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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Education Experience Funny Hard Music Play Serious Touch Try
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
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
Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
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Death Serious Yourself
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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Action Audience Consistency Demand Hard Time
If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
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Clean Dedication Determination Myself Order Passionate Play
You can’t shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.
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Lose Love Pain Risk Yourself
Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
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Funny Past Time
Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
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Art Language Power Purpose Stay Wound Yourself
Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
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Inspirational One Liner Support Thinking Win
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
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
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’.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Breathe Carry Expression Fly Light Lying Train Truth World
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
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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Bad Better Experience Life Past Present Yourself
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

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