While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing… — 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 think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that… — Bruce Springsteen Existentialism Copy Share Image
When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath. — Bruce Springsteen Breath Copy Share Image
Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're… — Bruce Springsteen Art 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 Attention Copy Share Image
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of… — Bruce Springsteen Education Copy Share Image
I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
“People always asked me how the band played like it did night after night, almost murderously consistent, NEVER stagnant and always full… — 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 played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him… — Bruce Springsteen Actor 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 Albums Copy Share Image
We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith… — Bruce Springsteen Care Copy Share Image
If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“I wanted to collide with the times and create a voice that had musical, social and cultural impact.” — Bruce Springsteen Music Copy Share Image
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… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that… — 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 Body 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 Conviction Copy Share Image
So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room. — Bruce Springsteen Brain Copy Share Image
The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting. — Bruce Springsteen Country 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 do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like… — Bruce Springsteen Album Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great.… — Bruce Springsteen Dedication Copy Share Image
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future -… — Bruce Springsteen Fabulous Copy Share Image
With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let… — 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 Audience Copy Share Image
Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river… — Bruce Springsteen Adultery 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
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with… — 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
