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A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
The Boss
Rhyming
Dictionary
Armed
Dangerous
Men

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More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.
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I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.
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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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Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
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Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.
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Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?
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You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.
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Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.
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An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.
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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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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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An audience is not brought to you or given to you it's something that you fight for.
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We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.
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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 can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark
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I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.
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Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by, Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.
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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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If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.
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Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
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