"I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice."
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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 told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own."
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"All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling."
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"My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins."
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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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"Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart."
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"Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now."
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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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"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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"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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"You know hearts these days are cheap."
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"I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people."
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"You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean."
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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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"But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home."
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"If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder."
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"The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit."
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"By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on."
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"Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique."
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