Bruce Springsteen Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Play, Parent, Doubt

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• I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Children, Pride, Reflection

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• The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Writing, Parent, Saws

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• My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Cousin, Dad, War

  "Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, radio.krcb.org. September 15, 2017.

• [People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, People, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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