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Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
Guitarist
Musician
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Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
The Boss
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Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?
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I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
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It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.
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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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Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
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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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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
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Two hearts are better than one.
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If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.
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Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
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But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
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Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.
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Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land.
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I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.
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I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.
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It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear
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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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For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.
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