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When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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