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" 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. "

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You

Understanding

Life

" I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost. "

" 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. "

Bruce Springsteen

Said

She

" I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. "

" We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. "

" I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard. "

Bruce Springsteen

Experience

Funny

" Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. "

" Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. "

" The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it. "

" When it comes to luck, you make your own. "

" 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. "

" A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by. "

Bruce Springsteen

Years

Pass

" Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous. "

" Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. "

" No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. "

" If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it. "

Bruce Springsteen

Show

" The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. "

" 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. "

" My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. "

Bruce Springsteen

Gay

Nice

" I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist. "

" I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great. Those things were tempered as time passed by. "

" I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles. "

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Street

" It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company. "

" The release date is just one day, but the record is forever. "