But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written. — 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… — 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
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
See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next… — 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
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. — 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
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
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
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 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
A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world… — 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
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about,… — 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
“Music on the radio is a shared fever dream, a collective hallucination, a secret amongst millions and a whisper in the whole… — 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
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
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records 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
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my… — 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
I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as… — 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
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
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