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In America everything's about who's number one today.

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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If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.
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When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.
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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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