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
I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“If you travel for years in an integrated band, you see racism in action.” — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. — 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 Copy Share Image
My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that… — Bruce Springsteen 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
A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big… — Bruce Springsteen 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
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
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
The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the… — 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 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 hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians… — 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 had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie… — 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
