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I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

~Bruce Springsteen

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My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: About Always Been Chance Civil Civil Rights Clarify Experience Feelings Gay Had Heterosexual Image Lesbian Me My Own Nice Own Rights Straight Very

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I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Art Feelings Film Map Music Sort Think Work Your I Think

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If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: After Clean Done Had Janitor Me Order Play Show Toilets Up Would

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Growing Growing Up Guitar House Me Other Things Two Unpopular Up Were

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Angry Best Critical Music Often Patriotism Questioning Real Underneath

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

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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.

~Bruce Springsteen

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I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Basis Behind Community Connected Go Idea Leave Little Local Looking Me Music Nightly Play Put Really Service Simple Some Something Town Us Very Way You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 23rd, 1949

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