“Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning of the "digital turn" that would, in fits and starts, transform music culture . . . .”
Source: Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
“You know, it’s not about proving them wrong. It’s about becoming stronger than the version of you they once broke, the one who stayed, tried, and still wasn’t enough. It’s not even about revenge, it’s about self-respect and self-realization. Because fixing yourself after being torn apart is the loudest comeback.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would have been no good reason to make or release a Nebraska. The album made it impossible to use the word "sellout.”
Source: Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.”
“Eddie is Iron Maiden's mascot, monster, alter ego - call it what you will. Part supernatural, part primal, part aggressive adolescent, Eddie is a super anti-hero with no backstory. Eddie doesn't give a fuck. He just is.
Eddie also gets us off the hook as individuals. Eddie is far bigger and more outrageous than any badly behaved superstar. Eddie makes rock stars obsolete. This comes in handy when you get to your late fifties and rather fancy a quiet night in after playing to 25,000 screaming metal fans.”
Source: What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography
“Confusion will be my epitaph!
As I crawl a cracked and broken path...
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying...”
“I am neither an accountant nor a lawyer, and I am not sure that I would be able to make sense of all this even if I were. After talking with each of the Crickets, with Petty, with the Holleys and Maria Elena and others who were close to the situation, it is my own judgement that Holly and the Crickets never received much of what was rightfully theirs--although they may well have been paid all that was legally due to them. In the entertainment industry, even more than in other businesses, what is fair and what is legal are often worlds apart. This is just my opinion and others may conclude differently.”
Source: Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography Of Buddy Holly
“Listen to me. Listen to me now. For if this dogwood bow can force beauty upon you, then I shall shove every part of myself into that beauty. I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are.”
Source: Light from Uncommon Stars
“Your story is yours, every mistake, every heartbreak, every lesson. You don’t need anyone’s approval to tell it or to live it. They may judge, misunderstand, or walk away, and that’s ok, it wasn’t their path to walk. No one felt what you felt, no one carried what you carried. So live your story your way, unapologetically, honestly, and without looking back.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes. My Crescent City
Is where your speech alone is understood”
Source: The Whitsun Weddings