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Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

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Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

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

Evan James was done up in a white suit, looking very handsome and calling "Dada, Dada" during the ceremony

Now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man

God have mercy on the man
who doubts what he's sure of.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

Tonight I'm stepping lightly and I'm feeling no pain.

All you can do is show people ... You tell stories that are true and compelling.

Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

For the ones who had a notion,
a notion deep inside
That it ain't no sin
to be glad you're alive

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

We could survive as musicians only on our little sliver of the East Coast. We had to get back.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.

Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

Luckily for parents, children have great resilience and a generous ability to forgive.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

The exit in a blaze of glory is bullshit.

You can't start a fire without a spark

Now I work down at the carwash
Where all it ever does is rain

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road ...

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.

It's a town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Blame it on the lies that killed us.
Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

The bride and her hero are whisked away in their long black limousine, the one that drops you off at the beginning of your life.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

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

Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
I'm ready to grow young again

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

It was time to call on my old paisan Steve Van Zandt.

You can't start a fire
Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

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

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

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.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

We struggled together and sometimes with one another. We took care of one another. In the end, we kept faith in each other.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

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

Italian cooking again. The power of the "pinch of death" has

cause down the shore everything's all right

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

I decided the world was filled with plenty of good guitar players, many of them my match or better, but how many good songwriters were there?

You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

Is there anybody alive out there?

I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.

Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

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

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.

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'm ready to grow young again

The wise men were all fools, what to do?