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
The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as… — 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
You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that… — 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
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was… — 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
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And… — 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
It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your… — 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
