You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country. — 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
Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. — 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
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 name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like… — 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… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people… — 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
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling. — 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 realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people… — 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 never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now,… — 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
When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And… — 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
All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically… — 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 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
![“[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been…” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/131/bruce-springsteen-546_complex-problems_people-are-trying-to-they-re-trying-to-c_2018072.jpg)
![“If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort…” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/93d/bruce-springsteen-546_blow_if-you-re-up-there-on-stage-thinking-abo_1593313.jpg)
![“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You…” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d2d/bruce-springsteen-546_believe_it-s-all-sort-of-dreams-and-it-s-all-ill_2765822.jpg)
![“I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b7/bruce-springsteen-546_audience_i-always-write-with-an-audience-in-mind_1185905.jpg)
![“I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb0/bruce-springsteen-546_exception_i-don-t-know-if-i-know-anyone-with-the-e_23352.jpg)
