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More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
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Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.
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When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.
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I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
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Politics and life go hand in hand.
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The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.
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Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
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It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.
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I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.
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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
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T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.
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The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.
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I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.
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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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I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core 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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Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.
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Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.
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The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
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On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.
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