Song Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

— Bruce Springsteen

I want a thousand guitars . . .

— Bruce Springsteen

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

— Bruce Springsteen

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

— Bruce Springsteen

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

— Bruce Springsteen

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

— Bruce Springsteen

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

— Bruce Springsteen

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

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

— Bruce Springsteen

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

— Bruce Springsteen

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

— Bruce Springsteen

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

— Bruce Springsteen

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

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

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside…

— Bruce Springsteen

“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

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

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that…

— Bruce Springsteen

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as…

— Bruce Springsteen

If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal…

— Bruce Springsteen

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it…

— Bruce Springsteen

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In…

— Bruce Springsteen

At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire…

— Bruce Springsteen

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,…

— Bruce Springsteen

You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any…

— Bruce Springsteen

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself…

— Bruce Springsteen

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

— Bruce Springsteen

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

— Bruce Springsteen

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

— Bruce Springsteen

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

— Bruce Springsteen

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

— Bruce Springsteen

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

— Bruce Springsteen

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

— Bruce Springsteen

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was…

— Bruce Springsteen

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

— Bruce Springsteen

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the…

— Bruce Springsteen