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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.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
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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The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.
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Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.
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Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.
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Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
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The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.
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Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.
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For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.
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If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
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In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
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She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.
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An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.
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A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.
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The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
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Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
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We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you And should I fall behind,Wait for me.
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Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
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