I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“You write about what you love and you write about things you’re trying to make sense of.” — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 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
I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort… — 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
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
“Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. You’ve got to pull up the things that mean something to you in order for… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the… — 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
A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you… — 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 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
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
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — 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
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues… — 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
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
![“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)
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