Music Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

— Bruce Springsteen

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

— Bruce Springsteen

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

— Bruce Springsteen

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

— Bruce Springsteen

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

— Bruce Springsteen

“I wanted to collide with the times and create a voice that had musical, social and cultural impact.”

— Bruce Springsteen

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

— Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

— Bruce Springsteen

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it.…

— Bruce Springsteen

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.

— Bruce Springsteen

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying,…

— Bruce Springsteen

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's…

— Bruce Springsteen

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and,…

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of…

— Bruce Springsteen

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside…

— Bruce Springsteen

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the…

— Bruce Springsteen

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort…

— Bruce Springsteen

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street…

— Bruce Springsteen

I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town,…

— Bruce Springsteen

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,…

— Bruce Springsteen

We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the…

— Bruce Springsteen

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In…

— Bruce Springsteen

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't…

— Bruce Springsteen

At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire…

— Bruce Springsteen

“When life comes knockin', it's the heartbroken doo-wop singer who understands regret and the price of loving, the hard-living soul man who…

— Bruce Springsteen

I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as…

— Bruce Springsteen

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in…

— Bruce Springsteen

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV,…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Bruce Springsteen

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

— Bruce Springsteen

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

— Bruce Springsteen

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Bruce Springsteen

I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician.

— Bruce Springsteen

“My Mind” and the country music I’d so long ignored. Hank”

— Bruce Springsteen

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've…

— Bruce Springsteen

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at…

— Bruce Springsteen