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Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage... Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.

— Bruce Springsteen

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These are all existential threats to our democracy and our American way of life.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse?

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.

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

I don’t think anybody truly knows where we’re going from here yet. It depends on too many unknowns.

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