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

— Bruce Springsteen

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For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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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

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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

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I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

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When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

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