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
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
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 you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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