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
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent. — 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
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
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
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's… — 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
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice. — 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
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
Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it… — 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
Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music. — 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 think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is 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
I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances… — 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
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
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
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