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If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.
Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
Guitarist
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Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
The Boss
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Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.
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I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.
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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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I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.
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When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.
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Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
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All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
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The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.
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Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.
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The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.
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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
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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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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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The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.
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I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.
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