If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't… — 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
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
I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and… — 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
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
Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went… — 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
You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety, which all would have been very familiar… — 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
When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 not right.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
![“[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/i/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/i/93d/bruce-springsteen-546_blow_if-you-re-up-there-on-stage-thinking-abo_1593313.jpg)
![“Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were…” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b6/bruce-springsteen-546_art_patti-scialfa-was-an-artist-and-a-musici_3047221.jpg)
