God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENThe 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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Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
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Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
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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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I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.
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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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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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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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You’re born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else’s past.
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Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
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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.
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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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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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We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.
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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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