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Bruce Springsteen Inspirational Quotes (232)

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I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.
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You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark
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Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.
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I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.
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I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.
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The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.
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T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.
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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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cause down the shore everything's all right
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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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The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.
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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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You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.
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Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
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Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.
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Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.
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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
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I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.
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Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.
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When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.
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Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.
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You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.
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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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Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
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