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"Springsteen Dedication Speech"
"First thing, I have to thank my mother and my father. Excuse the sunglasses but it's getting a little misty in here. Because my music is the music of struggle and that came directly from their lives, Freehold in the '50s and how hard it was for them to make it day to day. I remember my mother on a monthly basis down at the finance department borrowing money to get to the next month. Pay it back and borrow money for the next month. When I went to work I put on my father's clothes and I just did what could. I did what I could."
"On a personal note I got to thank my beautiful wife of 35 years, without her so much of this simply would not exist. Her love, her talent, her patience, her support are central to everything I do … she is my heart, my soul. She has struggled and she is my hero and my favorite E Street Band member."
"I wanted to thank Monmouth University. It really wasn't something I ever expected. A lot of the stuff was originally in my mother's garage, now it's here. I want to thank the Asbury Park library who kind of started the whole thing and a little shack on the property here for many years, they held a lot of my junk. I took a short tour through the center the other day and when I came out I was thrilled that I wasn't dead."
"This simply wouldn't have happened (without Chapman). She's always been there for me. She's the center's director and she's simply incredible."
"It reminds me of the rug mills where I started my first band a half block up the street. The looms clanking and banging and there was no air conditioning. All the windows were open all through the summer and it was through the sound of that rug mill that I created my first music."
| Compiled by : Chris Jordan & Carly Cavanaugh via Asbury Park Press. |