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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
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In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
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Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.
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The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense.
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This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
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