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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", he is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, his Jersey Shore roots, his distinctive voice, and his lengthy and energetic stage performances.

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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.

Guy, Hate, Making, Rock, Rocks

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

Light, Mind, Oncoming, Train

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.

Band, Horns, Pieces, Slightly, Years

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

Erosion, Idea, Ideas, Right, Thinking

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

Apart, Dad, Fathers Day, Heart, Hearts, Pulled

Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.

Blow, Dream, Heart, Lying, Tear, Twister

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

Bridges, Difficult, Music, People, Voice

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy. . . I wanted to be great.

Famous, Happy, Rich, Wanted

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Different, Intelligence, Recognizes, School, Type

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Audience, Make, Music, Trying

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

Character, Church, Church Music, Drawn, Talent

Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?

Artist, Baby, Jesus, Know, Person, Worth

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

Alive, Glad, Inspirational, Sin

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.

Band, Motivation, Moving, Song, Times, Wrote

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Back, Down, Nothin, Poet, Stand, Writing

[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.

Difficult, Parent, People, Thinking, Unable, Unknowingly

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Acceptance, Forefront, Music, Tolerance

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

Down, Pants, Pull, Rocks, Song, Variation

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

Becomes, Reality, Sooner, Sooner Or Later, Used

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

Baby, Cause, Gotta, Running, Travel, Young

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