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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
American Musician
Born: Sep 23, 1949
Band Good Me Music People You
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen
Life Reality My Life Distance Spent Dream Between Judging American American Dream
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. Bruce Springsteen
Life Good You Old Understanding Band Getting Old Gathering Our Equation Getting Afraid
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous. Bruce Springsteen
Future Somebody Past Live Reckon Fabulous Towards Move Who Present
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. Bruce Springsteen
Music Best You World Face Some Seek Something Shelter Provide Essentially Momentarily
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it. Bruce Springsteen
Life Music Live Enormous Settle Mystery Adult Adult Life Advocate Dealing Answers Questions Deny Just Anything Amount
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. Bruce Springsteen
Try Dream About Talk Make Real
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. Bruce Springsteen
Me Down Garbage Nun Distinction Only Had Priest Mass Stuffed Knocked Also Altar She Because Boy Said Grade Being Where Her Belonged Third Desk
There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up. Bruce Springsteen
Day Morning Melody About Something Road Thunder New Opening New Day Up Just
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. Bruce Springsteen
Time Consistency Thought Long Action Purpose Long Period Over Demands Period Audience Getting Sustaining Hard
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance. Bruce Springsteen
Beautiful Mathematics Great You Simple Incredibly Lyrics Sung Records Beatle Retain Well Beautifully Still Listen Where Them Elegance Elegant Why Played Earliest
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. Bruce Springsteen
You Society States Telling Folks Some Point Train Get Cracking Where United United States
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. Bruce Springsteen
Music Best Angry Patriotism Critical Underneath Real Questioning Often
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. Bruce Springsteen
You Face Seen Recording Before Every Weddings Recording Studio Could Drive-In Firemen Studio Policemen Audience Balls Walked Front Bar Theaters Ever Played
Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous. Bruce Springsteen
Gay First Everybody Had Stereotypes Obvious First Thing Becomes Yeah Friends The First Thing Different Realized Ridiculous Thing
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music. Bruce Springsteen
Music Acceptance Tolerance Forefront Were Certainly
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs. Bruce Springsteen
Home Tomorrow Write Songs Come Became Still Electrician Play Night
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. Bruce Springsteen
Work Best Me Mother Father Sense Enormous Saw Way Those Possible Results Self Picked Failings Towering House Also She Lot Up Creates Turns Your Figure Her Things
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar. Bruce Springsteen
Me Guitar Other Unpopular House Were Up Growing Growing Up Things Two
I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something. Bruce Springsteen
Good You Song Correctly Out Evolving Introduction Something Feel Suppose Like Makes Coming Then
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. Bruce Springsteen
Music Rest Some Like Know Until Felt Rock Rock Music Human Dying Race Realized Reason Human Race Connection Why
I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.' Bruce Springsteen
Myself You Writing World Guitar Project Guitar Player Individuality Know Looked Sing Singer Well Greatest Said Very Going Just Play Player
You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing. Bruce Springsteen
You Creative Build Ongoing Period Box Another Always Escape Person Artist Then Your Creative Person
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. Bruce Springsteen
People Young Other Frank Ways Frank Sinatra Williams Admired Catalogue Sinatra Because Very Times Did Hank Hank Williams Different Decided Dylan Gonna Bob Bob Dylan Who Different Ways
When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened. Bruce Springsteen
You Lose Hunger Know Sellout Get Happened Your Fat
We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. Bruce Springsteen
Living Ourselves Telling Stories
I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist. Bruce Springsteen
Guitarist Style Enough Pursue Never Had Had Enough Felt Personal Just Being Personal Style
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