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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Continue Day Engage Good Issues Make Need Present Records Relevant Remain Things Two Very Well Write You Yourself

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Became Come Electrician Home Night Play Songs Still Tomorrow Write

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The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Among Boss Capital Dough Friends Just Like Liked Me Meant Name Never People Really Sort Started Term Week Worked

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Body Came Darkness Edge Had Happy Huge Out Songs Tons Town Very Work

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Adrenaline Again Conditioning Four Like Little Minutes Performing Quickly Screaming Shouting Sprinting Then Think Three Time Walk Way While Whole You Your

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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Adult All The World Closing Constantly Corruption Decay Down Institutions Itself Responsibility Routine Trying World

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: About Being Dime Front Having Idea Machine Man Something Supple Turn Underneath You

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: About Encountered First Late Musical Outlook Process Shaping Wanted Woody

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All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Always Beautiful Child Dare Even Junk Just Kid Loved Many Music People Records Say Subtext Those Though Thought Tuned Unaware Were You

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All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Behind Commitment Feels Me Meaningful Music Passion Try Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 23rd, 1949

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