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"I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns."
"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
"Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me."
"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."
"For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live."
"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."
"If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with."
"Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier."
"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."
"It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win."
"There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king."
"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."
"More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great."
"Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself."
"I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...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...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...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
"It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess."
"It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."
"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
"Nobody wins unless everybody wins."
"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream."