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Meat Loaf might have been sincere, but he was just a fat goofball who was cool in spite of himself. But Bruce was trying to save you. He appealed to the kind of desperate intellectual who halfway believed that—when not recording or touring—Springsteen actually went back to New Jersey to work at a car wash. Before he even utters his lyrics, people a
... See moreChuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)
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U2’s “MLK” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Bruce Springsteen’s advice to young musicians:
Don’t take yourself too seriously.... See more
Take yourself as seriously as death itself.
Don’t worry. Worry your ass off.
Have iron-clad confidence, but doubt.
It keeps you alive and alert!
Believe you are the baddest ass in town – and [that] you suck!
It keeps you honest.
Be able to keep two completely contrad
Sari Azout • Both are true

The Evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the Dumbest Person Is on Your Side, You’re on the Wrong Side’
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What it does mean to be an American is all caught up in what did it mean to be one. Only some combination of those answers could lead you to what it might mean to be an American.
Bruce Springsteen • Born to Run

the “manifesto” Michael Jackson wrote before he made Off the Wall is so inspiring https://t.co/U1g9ROAxgC