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Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
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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All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.
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I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.
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You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.
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I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?
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But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.
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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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For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.
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In America everything's about who's number one today.
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If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.
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Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets.
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Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.
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You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
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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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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
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I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.
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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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You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.
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