What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen Adulthood Copy Share Image
We're a long, long way from home. Home's a long, long way from us. — Bruce Springsteen Home Copy Share Image
An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for. — Bruce Springsteen Audience Copy Share Image
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care.” — Bruce Springsteen Life and living Copy Share Image
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. — Bruce Springsteen Audience Copy Share Image
We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this… — Bruce Springsteen Day Copy Share Image
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us… — Bruce Springsteen Death Copy Share Image
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town,… — Bruce Springsteen Community Copy Share Image
That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book.… — Bruce Springsteen Book Copy Share Image
You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 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
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
In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in… — Bruce Springsteen Art Copy Share Image
“The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every… — Bruce Springsteen Art Copy Share Image
The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went… — Bruce Springsteen Book Copy Share Image
“The country no longer felt like the innocent place it was said to be in the Eisenhower fifties. Political murder, economic injustice… — Bruce Springsteen American life Copy Share Image
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have iron-clad confidence, but… — Bruce Springsteen Confidence Copy Share Image
My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image