Bruce Springsteen Quotes
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I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?
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I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
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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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Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.
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The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
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I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
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I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.
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I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.
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Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
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For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.
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I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.
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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.
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I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.
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We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
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Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.
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I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
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It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
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"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.
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So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.
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I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.
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Politics and life go hand in hand.
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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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She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.
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Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
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When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.
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Out of our way mister, you best keep.
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If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.
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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
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The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.
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Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.
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