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Bruce Springsteen Inspirational Quotes (232)

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I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
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I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.
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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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It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now.
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I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
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She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.
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You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.
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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. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands
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The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.
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Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.
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After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.
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I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.
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Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
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I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.
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For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.
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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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I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.
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The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.
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When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
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But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
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I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
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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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