American - Musician | September 23, 1949 - 34
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
Bruce Springsteen
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When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
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Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
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I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.
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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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You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
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I think politics come out of psychology.
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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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For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
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If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.
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When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.
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Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.
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