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Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.
Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.
What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.
I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.
The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.
So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.
They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.
Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.
You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.
Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.
For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.
Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.
My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.
'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.
People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.
I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.
Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.
I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.
To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.
I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.
The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.
All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.
We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.
For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.
We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.
But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.
I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.
At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.
I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.
I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.
It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.