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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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Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
The Boss
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I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.
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Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.
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For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands
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The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.
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A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
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I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.
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You ask for your audience's investment in your music you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.
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Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.
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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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We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.
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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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Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.
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I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
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I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.
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My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.
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I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.
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Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?
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I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.
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I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
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