American - Musician | September 23, 1949 -
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
Bruce Springsteen
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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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I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
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You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.
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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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I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
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'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
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Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.
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That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.
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Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.
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The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
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I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
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