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" 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. "

Bruce Springsteen

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" 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. "

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" You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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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" The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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