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. Bruce Springsteen More Quotes by Bruce Springsteen More Quotes From Bruce Springsteen The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland. Bruce Springsteen rocks guitar kids All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling. Bruce Springsteen storytelling stories people Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all. Bruce Springsteen respect walks baby She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live. Bruce Springsteen reason-to-live crush reason I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years. Bruce Springsteen bob able years I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young. Bruce Springsteen children jesus thinking 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. Bruce Springsteen jobs country father Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind. Bruce Springsteen left behinds years Is there anybody alive out there? Bruce Springsteen alive I don't know many artists who are not crazy. Bruce Springsteen crazy artist knows 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. Bruce Springsteen freak towns guy Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique. Bruce Springsteen jersey shore unique When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety. Bruce Springsteen anxiety personality kids I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room. Bruce Springsteen vacation expression heart If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know. Bruce Springsteen song giving believe Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Bruce Springsteen flags flying mean 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. Bruce Springsteen airplane records band I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio. Bruce Springsteen bars black white I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them. Bruce Springsteen assuming band people 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. Bruce Springsteen records singers years
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