The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs. — 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
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy. — 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 Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. — 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
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
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some 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
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort… — 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 was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town,… — 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
We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the… — 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've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't… — 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 Copy Share Image
“When life comes knockin', it's the heartbroken doo-wop singer who understands regret and the price of loving, the hard-living soul man who… — 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
Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in… — 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,… — 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
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at… — Bruce Springsteen 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
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