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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. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#clean #done #had #i #janitor

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#band #bare #bones #could #couple

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. ↗

— Layne Staley

#desires #enough #get #i #lucky

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#between #each #fire #lights #optimism

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#essentially #face #momentarily #music #provide

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#creative #essentially #genius #individual #possesses

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#best #critical #music #often #patriotism

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#lasts #live #me #moment #music

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. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#dying #felt #human #human race #i

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#big #early #first #guy #had