Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something]. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
