In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside… — 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
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful?… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When you're onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity… — 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