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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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You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.
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The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.
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The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
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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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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 best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
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I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.
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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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Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.
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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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Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
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Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.
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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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Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
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I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.
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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
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It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.
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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 was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.
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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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