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The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
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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.
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After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.
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Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
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Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?
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An audience is not brought to you or given to you it's something that you fight for.
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Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
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I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
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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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Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
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I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.
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Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?
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I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
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At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
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The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.
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Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
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