Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen é um influente cantor, compositor, violonista e guitarrista dos Estados Unidos. Em sua carreira, iniciada em 1969, Bruce já recebeu vários prêmios importantes, como vinte Grammys, quatro American Music Awards e um Oscar.
Bruce, em suas letras, deixa evidenciado seu patriotismo, e é uma espécie de porta-voz dos trabalhadores, muitas vezes mencionados em suas canções. O álbum Born to Run está na lista dos 200 álbuns definitivos no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.O artista também participou da música "We Are the World", uma parceria de 45 cantores que tinha o objetivo de arrecadar fundos para o combate da fome na África, escrita por Michael Jackson e Lionel Richie. Os 45 astros formaram o grupo USA for Africa. Bruce já vendeu mais de 120 milhões de discos.
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“O passado nunca é o passado. É sempre o presente.”
The past is never the past. It is always present.
Bruce Springsteen em entrevista ao jornal The Guardian, em 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/18/bruce-springsteen-interview
“Falando em sonho, tente transformá-lo em realidade.”
Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
Letra de sua canção Badlands, de 1978. http://www.brasilpost.com.br/2014/09/14/bruce-springsteen-licoes-_n_5804190.html
“Quando se trata de sorte, você tem de fazer a sua.”
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
Letra de sua canção Lucky Town, de 1992. http://www.brasilpost.com.br/2014/09/14/bruce-springsteen-licoes-_n_5804190.html
Trecho da música "American Skin" (2014)
Open your ears, open your hearts. Don't take yourselves too seriously and take yourself as seriously as death itself."
Bruce Springsteen em entrevista no festival SXSW, em 2012. http://www.brasilpost.com.br/2014/09/14/bruce-springsteen-licoes-_n_5804190.html
"Working on a Dream"
Song lyrics, Working on a Dream (2009)
"Youngstown"
Song lyrics, The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
"Jungleland"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
"Nebraska"
Song lyrics, Nebraska (1982)
“Show a little faith, there's magic in the night;
You ain't a beauty but hey you're all right.”
"Thunder Road"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
Contexto: Don't run back inside
Darling you know just what I'm here for.
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore.
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night;
You ain't a beauty but hey you're all right.
Oh and that's all right with me.
“We gotta get out while we're young,
'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.”
"Born to Run"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
Contexto: In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream.
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines.
Sprung from cages on Highway 9,
Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected
And steppin' out over the line.
Baby this town rips the bones from your back.
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap.
We gotta get out while we're young,
'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.
"Point Blank"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)
"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
"Better Days"
Song lyrics, Lucky Town (1992)
"Lonesome Day"
Song lyrics, The Rising (2002)
"Devils & Dust"
Song lyrics, Devils & Dust (2005)
"The Rising"
Song lyrics, The Rising (2002)
"Brilliant Disguise"
Song lyrics, Tunnel Of Love (1987)
“Spare parts
And broken hearts
Keep the world turnin' around.”
"Spare Parts"
Song lyrics, Tunnel Of Love (1987)
"Independence Day"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)
"Badlands"
Song lyrics, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
"Death to My Hometown"
Song lyrics, Wrecking Ball (2012)
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Song lyrics, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
"Dancing in the Dark"
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
"Radio Nowhere"
Song lyrics, Magic (2007)
"Streets of Philadelphia", from the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia (1994)
Song lyrics, Singles
"The Rising"
Song lyrics, The Rising (2002)
"Fade Away"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)
"57 Channels"
Song lyrics, Human Touch (1992)
"Racing in the Street"
Song lyrics, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
"Growin' Up"
Song lyrics, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
