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“Someone made the mistake of telling me the safest place in a lightning storm was in a car because of the grounding of the rubber tires. After that, at the first sound of thunder, I caterwauled until my parents would take me in the car until the storm subsided. I then proceeded to write about cars for the rest of my life.”
― Bruce Springsteen -- Born to Run: Piano/Vocal/Chords
― Bruce Springsteen -- Born to Run: Piano/Vocal/Chords
“Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.”
― Born to Run
― Born to Run
“We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down.”
― Born to Run
― Born to Run
“However, as I grew older, there were certain things about the way I thought, reacted, behaved. I came to ruefully and bemusedly understand that once you're a Catholic, you're always a Catholic. So I stopped kidding myself. I don't often participate in my religion but I know somewhere... deep inside... I'm still on the team.”
― Born to Run
― Born to Run
“It’s hard to imagine that Clarence was once a normal person, a college student, football player and bespectacled counselor at the Jamesburg State Home for Boys. He had a face that would look at home at any point in history. It was the face of an exotic emperor, an island king, a heavyweight boxer, a shaman, a chain-gang convict, a fifties bluesman and a deep soul survivor. It held one million secrets and none at all.”
― Born to Run
― Born to Run
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Barb’s 2025 Year in Books
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