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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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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
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Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.
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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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After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.
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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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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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'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
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I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who I think were trying to - who you played a bit of a big brother role for and were trying to sort out a lot of the same things right - soon as Born To Run hit, you know? So it was something that I worked pretty hard on.
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No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
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I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.
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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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At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
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An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.
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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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I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.
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More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.
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Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
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There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
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So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.
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