American - Musician | September 23, 1949 -
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Bruce Springsteen
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A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.
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There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.
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We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
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I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
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I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
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Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
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At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire album over again with studio musicians. And I said I wouldn't do it, and they basically said, 'Well hey, look, it's going to go in the trash can.' That's the record business, you know.
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No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
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When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
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Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
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In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
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