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… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image,… — 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
I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this… — 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
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience. — 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
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 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
I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I… — 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 Image
When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 to limit… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
