Audience Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over…

— Bruce Springsteen

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

— Bruce Springsteen

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with…

— Bruce Springsteen

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

— Bruce Springsteen

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

— Bruce Springsteen

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

— Bruce Springsteen

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

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

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

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

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

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

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

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

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

I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who…

— Bruce Springsteen

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

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