Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage... Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

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Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

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Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

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The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

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I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

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I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

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Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

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Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.

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In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines.

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The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

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This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

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We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

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They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skin
They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind
They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dyin' now
The hands that built the country, we're all trying to keep down.

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In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged.

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Baby this town rips the bones from your back,
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap,
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us baby we were born to run.

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We made a promise we swore we'd always remember No retreat, baby, no surrender.

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Is a dream a lie if it don't come true,
Or is it something worse?

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Down in the shadow of the penitentiary,
Out by the gas fires of the refinery;
I'm ten years burning down the road,
Nowhere to run, ain't nowhere to go.

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Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied
'til he rules everything.

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At this point, I don't need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That's not fundamentally important — I don't believe that sustains you.

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There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.

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They risk death in the deserts and mountains
Pay all they got to the smugglers rings
We send 'em home and they come right back again
Carl, hunger is a powerful thing.

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A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

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Down from the mountain roads where the highway rolls to dark,
'Neath Allah's blessed rain we remain worlds apart.

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You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

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Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.

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If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

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The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in a car with my mother listening to WMCA and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked in the door to your mind: Like a Rolling Stone.

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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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